Wayne Davison wrote: > On Fri, May 16, 2008 at 12:07:47PM -0500, Jordan Russell wrote: >> rsync: make_bak_dir mkdir "/backup/server/../server-before-5/var" failed: >> File exists (17) >> rsync: keep_backup failed: "/backup/server/var/lib/rpcbind/rpcbind.file" -> >> "../server-before-5/var/lib/rpcbind/rpcbind.file": Success (0) > > I tried to duplicate your failure, but rsync didn't fail for me.
Thanks for checking. Unfortunately, I haven't been able to either. The errors do not re-appear if I manually put "var/lib/rpcbind" back in the destination directory and run the script again. (By the way, in case it makes any difference: both sides were upgraded from 2.6.9 to 3.0.2, so it's using the new "delete-during" default.) > The above errors indicate that the keep_backup() function tried to > rename the file into the backup dir, got an ENOENT error (which is the > only time it tries to call make_bak_dir()) and the attempt to make the > parent directory of the file failed with an EEXIST error (and then the > errno got reset to 0 due to the outputting of the error message, a bug > that I have fixed). I'm not sure if you caught this, but the "File exists" error was actually returned on the directory two levels up from the file: "var". > Is it possible that the file rpcbind.file caused an > ETXTBSY errno when rsync tried to rename it? Shouldn't be. On the receiving side, rsync is the only program that ever touches the files. (And there's never more than one rsync instance running at a time; the script is executed once per day from cron.) I suspect the ENOENT result in keep_backup() must be correct because the verbose output from the rsync run appears to indicate that "rpcbind.file" -- the file that generated these errors -- was deleted from the directory *first*: ... deleting var/lib/rpcbind/rpcbind.file deleting var/lib/rpcbind/portmap.file cannot delete non-empty directory: var/lib/rpcbind ... If I understand correctly, at that point, "var/lib/rpcbind" could not already exist in the backup directory. (There are no references to "var/lib/rpcbind" before that in the output.) -- Jordan Russell -- Please use reply-all for most replies to avoid omitting the mailing list. To unsubscribe or change options: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/rsync Before posting, read: http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html
