OK, thanks for clarifying. So I have nothing to worry about - my snapshots are working fine and I should be able to restore them without permission problems - correct? If these warnings are nothing to worry about then yes you can mark this as duplicate of bug 441628.
openSUSE switch from QT4.5 to QT4.6 going from 11.1 to 11.2 so perhaps that's where the problem got introduced. -- BiT continually stuck on Comparing snapshot...and permission problems https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/506876 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Back In Time Team, which is subscribed to Back In Time. Status in Back In Time: New Bug description: I'm posting this as requested by Dan on the Answers section https://answers.launchpad.net/backintime/+question/97137 BiT seems to have stopped working for me on a fresh installation of openSUSE 11.2. It seems to create the first snapshot fine but thereafter just gets stuck on Comparing snapshot. I have it configured to take a snapshot once every hour. I have the default excludes and tried adding .gvfs as an exclude (as mentioned in another thread) but couldn't. When I run BiT from the terminal as "backintime -b" it seems to run fine except I get a lot of permission denied errors. See output below. Back In Time Version: 0.9.26 Back In Time comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY. This is free software, and you are welcome to redistribute it under certain conditions; type `backintime --license' for details. INFO: Lock INFO: Include folders: ['/boot', '/srv', '/VAULT/Documents', '/home', '/etc', '/usr/local', '/usr/lib', '/usr/share'] INFO: Ignore folders: [] INFO: Last snapshots: {} INFO: [KDE4Plugin.Systray.run] INFO: [KDE4Plugin.Systray.run] begin loop INFO: Compare with old snapshot: 20100112-090001 rsync: opendir "/boot/lost+found" failed: Permission denied (13) rsync: opendir "/etc/audisp" failed: Permission denied (13) rsync: opendir "/etc/audit" failed: Permission denied (13) rsync: opendir "/etc/cups/ssl" failed: Permission denied (13) rsync: opendir "/etc/news" failed: Permission denied (13) rsync: opendir "/etc/ppp" failed: Permission denied (13) ...etc I also get... rsync error: some files/attrs were not transferred (see previous errors) (code 23) at main.c(1039) [sender=3.0.6] WARNING: Command "rsync -aEAX -i --dry-run --chmod=Fa-w,D+w --whole-file --delete --exclude="/media/Backup/TPX60s" --exclude="/home/Gxxxx/.local/share/backintime" --include="/boot/" --include="/srv/" --include="/VAULT/Documents/" --include="/VAULT/" --include="/home/" --include="/etc/" --include="/usr/local/" --include="/usr/" --include="/usr/lib/" --include="/usr/share/" --exclude="*.backup*" --exclude="*~" --include="/boot/**" --include="/srv/**" --include="/VAULT/Documents/**" --include="/home/**" --include="/etc/**" --include="/usr/local/**" --include="/usr/lib/**" --include="/usr/share/**" --exclude="*" / "/media/Backup/TPX60s/backintime/20100112-090001/backup/"" returns 5888 Then lots more permission denied errors INFO: Create hard-links INFO: Command "cp -al "/media/Backup/TPX60s/backintime/20100112-090001/backup/"* "/media/Backup/TPX60s/backintime/new_snapshot/backup/"" returns 0 INFO: Call rsync to take the snapshot rsync: opendir "/boot/lost+found" failed: Permission denied (13) rsync: opendir "/etc/audisp" failed: Permission denied (13) rsync: opendir "/etc/audit" failed: Permission denied (13) rsync: opendir "/etc/cups/ssl" failed: Permission denied (13) rsync: send_files failed to open "/boot/backup_mbr": Permission denied (13) rsync: send_files failed to open "/boot/grub/device.map": Permission denied (13) rsync: send_files failed to open "/boot/grub/device.map.old": Permission denied (13) rsync: send_files failed to open "/boot/grub/menu.lst": Permission denied (13) rsync: send_files failed to open "/boot/grub/menu.lst.old": Permission denied (13) rsync: send_files failed to open "/etc/.pwd.lock": Permission denied (13) rsync: send_files failed to open "/etc/at.deny": Permission denied (13) rsync: send_files failed to open "/etc/autofs_ldap_auth.conf": Permission denied (13) rsync: send_files failed to open "/etc/cron.deny": Permission denied (13) ...etc.. And then completes wit rsync: send_files failed to open "/usr/share/omc/svcinfo.d/syslog.xml": Permission denied (13) rsync error: some files/attrs were not transferred (see previous errors) (code 23) at main.c(1039) [sender=3.0.6] WARNING: Command "rsync -aEAX -v --delete-excluded --chmod=Fa-w,D+w --whole-file --delete --exclude="/media/Backup/TPX60s" --exclude="/home/Gxxxx/.local/share/backintime" --include="/boot/" --include="/srv/" --include="/VAULT/Documents/" --include="/VAULT/" --include="/home/" --include="/etc/" --include="/usr/local/" --include="/usr/" --include="/usr/lib/" --include="/usr/share/" --exclude="*.backup*" --exclude="*~" --include="/boot/**" --include="/srv/**" --include="/VAULT/Documents/**" --include="/home/**" --include="/etc/**" --include="/usr/local/**" --include="/usr/lib/**" --include="/usr/share/**" --exclude="*" / "/media/Backup/TPX60s/backintime/new_snapshot/backup/"" returns 5888 INFO: Save permissions INFO: [smart remove] keep all >= 20100111-000000 INFO: [smart remove] keep first >= 20100104-000000 and < 20100111-000000 INFO: [smart remove] keep first >= 20091228-000000 and < 20100104-000000 INFO: [smart remove] keep snapshots: ['20100112-121613', '20100112-090001', '20100111-141531'] INFO: Keep min free disk space: 200 Mb INFO: [KDE4Plugin.Systray.run] end loop INFO: Unlock Why am I getting these permission errors and what are those WARNINGS? This is the what's logged in the syslog from BiT started by the Cron job. Jan 12 11:00:01 suntp001 /usr/sbin/cron[11440]: (Gxxxx) CMD (nice -n 19 /usr/bin/backintime --backup-job >/dev/null 2>&1) Jan 12 11:00:01 suntp001 backintime (Gxxxx): INFO: Lock Jan 12 11:00:01 suntp001 backintime (Gxxxx): INFO: Include folders: ['/boot', '/srv', '/VAULT/Documents', '/home', '/etc', '/usr/local', '/usr/lib', '/usr/share'] Jan 12 11:00:01 suntp001 backintime (Gxxxx): INFO: Ignore folders: [] Jan 12 11:00:01 suntp001 backintime (Gxxxx): INFO: Last snapshots: {} Jan 12 11:00:01 suntp001 backintime (Gxxxx): INFO: [KDE4Plugin.Systray.run] Jan 12 11:00:02 suntp001 backintime (Gxxxx): INFO: Compare with old snapshot: 20100112-090001 Jan 12 11:00:02 suntp001 backintime (Gxxxx): INFO: [KDE4Plugin.Systray.run] begin loop Jan 12 11:15:59 suntp001 su: (to root) Gxxxx on /dev/pts/4 Jan 12 11:16:00 suntp001 su: (to root) Gxxxx on /dev/pts/4 Jan 12 11:26:04 suntp001 smartd[2752]: Device: /dev/sda [SAT], SMART Usage Attribute: 194 Temperature_Celsius changed from 148 to 144 Jan 12 11:45:54 suntp001 rsyslogd: -- MARK -- Jan 12 12:00:01 suntp001 /usr/sbin/cron[13050]: (Gxxxx) CMD (nice -n 19 /usr/bin/backintime --backup-job >/dev/null 2>&1) Jan 12 12:00:02 suntp001 backintime (Gxxxx): WARNING: A backup is already running Notice that a hour passes and a warning is thrown that BiT is already running. Nothing really happened during that hour and the whole time the tray icon just showed Comparing with snapshot 20100112-090001. If you require any other info or log output let me know. _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~bit-team Post to : bit-team@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~bit-team More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
