[Babase] Re: Fwd: Cron <root@papio>
/usr/local/sbin/rsync_backup --checksum --single-link backup-server1
/etc/rsync.d/rsync_backup_password --exclude-here
/var/lib/slocate/slocate.db / /boot --exclude-here '/disk/scratch/*'
--exclude-here '/disk/swap_areas/*'
Karl O. Pinc
kop at meme.com
Sat Jan 23 14:20:24 EST 2010
On 12/28/2009 06:56:36 AM, Lacey Maryott Roerish wrote:
> I forwarded you the whole e-mail, it was VERY short :-\
I believe that whenever we get around to upgrading papio
the message will become longer and contain the name of the
file that did not get backed up. (Which we will probably
not care about.)
>
> Thx
> L
>
> On Sun, Dec 27, 2009 at 11:13 PM, Karl O. Pinc <kop at meme.com> wrote:
>
> > On 12/27/2009 06:24:29 PM, Lacey Maryott Roerish wrote:
> > > hey karl,
> > >
> > > got this message today. does it mean backup didn't happen, or
> > > backup of
> > > the backup?
> > >
> > > L
> > >
> > > ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> > > From: Cron Daemon <root at papio.biology.duke.edu>
> > > Date: Sun, Dec 27, 2009 at 6:16 AM
> > > Subject: Cron <root at papio> /usr/local/sbin/rsync_backup --
> checksum
> > > --single-link backup-server1 /etc/rsync.d/rsync_backup_password
> > > --exclude-here /var/lib/slocate/slocate.db / /boot --exclude-here
> > > '/disk/scratch/*' --exclude-here '/disk/swap_areas/*' /disk
> > > To: papiobackupadmin at papio.biology.duke.edu
> > >
> > >
> > > rsync_backup[2435]: 24: /: rsync to backup-server1 failed
> >
> > This is a problem with the backup of papio, but 24 means that
> > the backup was partial because some of the files due to be
> > transferred vanished before they could be transferred.
> > Usually this is because some email or another is in-transit
> > and delivered by the time the program gets around to backing
> > it up. We don't care if this sort of transitory stuff is
> > omitted from the backup. I'd expect there'd be more
> > lines of detail in the message describing what was missing.
> > Was there any more in the email you got?
> >
> > FWIW a backup of the backup server will have the word "--pull"
> > in the subject, where the backup of papio itself won't.
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > Karl <kop at meme.com>
> > Free Software: "You don't pay back, you pay forward."
> > -- Robert A. Heinlein
> >
> >
>
>
> --
> - -
> Lacey K. Maryott Roerish
> Alberts Lab
> Department of Biology
> Duke University
> ph: 919-660-7306
> fax: 919-660-7293
> Lacey.Maryott at duke.edu
>
>
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