RE: [rdiff-backup-users] SHA1 checksums missing?

[Lucas Burdick]

Andrew,

 

Thanks for the quick reply.

 

I’m pretty sure these aren’t hardlinks, if I’m clear on the definition of hardlink.  There are a lot of files that return the error but here is the first one (from the mirror data):

 

ls -l ACCPACPL.PIF

-rwxr--rw-  1 rdiff-backup rdiff-backup      967 Dec  5  1998 ACCPACPL.PIF

file ACCPACPL.PIF

ACCPACPL.PIF: data

 

All this data is the same when the commands are run on the original source file as well.

 

Maybe some of the files giving me errors are hardlinks, but I can’t imagine all of them are.

 

I’m running rdiff-backup locally on the mirror host getting data over SSH from two remote sources.  I get this error from both sets of backups. I have an unprivileged user (rdiff-backup) doing the backup.

 

Any ideas?

I really appreciate the help.

 

Lucas

 

From: Andrew Ferguson [mailto:address@hidden
Sent: Thursday, January 01, 2009 11:35 AM
To: Lucas Burdick
Cc: address@hidden
Subject: Re: [rdiff-backup-users] SHA1 checksums missing?

 

 

On Jan 1, 2009, at 1:38 PM, Lucas Burdick wrote:

Hey There,

 

I’m trying to verify my backups but it seems like rdiff-backup isn’t keeping SHA1 data to compare my files.  Either that or I’m totally missing something (entirely possible).

 

When I do a --verify  I get the following error for what seems like every file (the cron email I get is 8MB):

 

Warning: Cannot find SHA1 digest for file xxx,

perhaps because this feature was added in v1.1.1

 

 

Hi Lucas,

 

What is an example file that this happens with? More importantly, what is the type of that file? Is it a hardlink?

 

eg, please send:

 

ls -l /path/to/xxx

file /path/to/xxx

 

 

Also, what is the backup configuration you are using? (how are you running rdiff-backup?)

 

 

Andrew