I forwarded you the whole e-mail, it was VERY short :-\<div><br></div><div>Thx</div><div>L<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, Dec 27, 2009 at 11:13 PM, Karl O. Pinc <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:kop@meme.com">kop@meme.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;"><div class="im">On 12/27/2009 06:24:29 PM, Lacey Maryott Roerish wrote:<br>
> hey karl,<br>
><br>
> got this message today. does it mean backup didn't happen, or<br>
> backup of<br>
> the backup?<br>
><br>
> L<br>
><br>
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------<br>
> From: Cron Daemon <<a href="mailto:root@papio.biology.duke.edu">root@papio.biology.duke.edu</a>><br>
> Date: Sun, Dec 27, 2009 at 6:16 AM<br>
> Subject: Cron <root@papio> /usr/local/sbin/rsync_backup --checksum<br>
> --single-link backup-server1 /etc/rsync.d/rsync_backup_password<br>
> --exclude-here /var/lib/slocate/slocate.db / /boot --exclude-here<br>
> '/disk/scratch/*' --exclude-here '/disk/swap_areas/*' /disk<br>
> To: <a href="mailto:papiobackupadmin@papio.biology.duke.edu">papiobackupadmin@papio.biology.duke.edu</a><br>
><br>
><br>
> rsync_backup[2435]: 24: /: rsync to backup-server1 failed<br>
<br>
</div>This is a problem with the backup of papio, but 24 means that<br>
the backup was partial because some of the files due to be<br>
transferred vanished before they could be transferred.<br>
Usually this is because some email or another is in-transit<br>
and delivered by the time the program gets around to backing<br>
it up. We don't care if this sort of transitory stuff is<br>
omitted from the backup. I'd expect there'd be more<br>
lines of detail in the message describing what was missing.<br>
Was there any more in the email you got?<br>
<br>
FWIW a backup of the backup server will have the word "--pull"<br>
in the subject, where the backup of papio itself won't.<br>
<br>
<br>
<br>
<br>
Karl <<a href="mailto:kop@meme.com">kop@meme.com</a>><br>
Free Software: "You don't pay back, you pay forward."<br>
-- Robert A. Heinlein<br>
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</blockquote></div><br><br clear="all"><br>-- <br>- -<br>Lacey K. Maryott Roerish<br>Alberts Lab<br>Department of Biology<br>Duke University<br>ph: 919-660-7306<br>fax: 919-660-7293<br><a href="mailto:Lacey.Maryott@duke.edu">Lacey.Maryott@duke.edu</a><br>
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