[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/*'

Lacey Maryott Roerish lroerish4 at gmail.com
Mon Dec 28 07:56:36 EST 2009


I forwarded you the whole e-mail, it was VERY short :-\

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
>
>


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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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