RE: [rdiff-backup-users] Metadata exists but no associated files

[Greg Freemyer]

I have not followed this thread, but if you are trying to backup a
windows box, then you will have to overcome the open files issues
related to windows.

In general windows does not allow a backup program to backup a file that
is currently open by another program.

Commercial backup programs pretty universally use Open File Manager from
St. Bernard to handle this.  (Several hundred $$ per PC.)

Hopefully, that is not your issue.

Greg
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Greg Freemyer


On Thu, 2003-09-04 at 03:10, Matej Pfajfar wrote:
> Nope, csh isn't there. I'll try and find out why it didn't go through.
> /mnt/backups_mp/system is an smbfs partition (in reality it's a remote
> NTFS).
> 
> Mat
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ben Escoto [mailto:address@hidden 
> Sent: Thursday, September 04, 2003 6:26 AM
> To: Matej Pfajfar
> Cc: address@hidden
> Subject: Re: [rdiff-backup-users] Metadata exists but no associated
> files
> 
> 
> On Wed, 3 Sep 2003 09:43:43 +0200
> "Matej Pfajfar" <address@hidden> wrote:
> > I made a full system backup yesterday and tried to do an "incremental"
> 
> > today. This is the error I get (below) - I gather from the error 
> > message that it found the file's attributes in the metadata file, but 
> > couldn't find the file itself. Is there a common cause for this?
> > 
> > Wed Sep  3 09:38:52 2003  Warning, metadata file has entry for 
> > bin/csh, but there are no associated files.
> 
> Well, check out /mnt/backups_mp/system/bin.  Does it contain 'csh'? If
> not, then for some reason the initial backup just skipped this file (a
> more serious problem than the incremental backup failing).  BTW, what
> kind of filesystem is /mnt/backup_mp/system?
>