[rdiff-backup-users] Missing files after rdiff-backup

[Wolfe Maykut]

        Hi.  I'm using rdiff-backup to backup a filesystem of a little
over 5 million files.  Running a find script and then comparing
differences I note that just over two hundred files didn't make it
over.  Now, that's a very good percentage, but still disturbing.

        Mostly what appears to have not transfered are directories and
those files within them, rather than isolated files.  I see no pattern
to problems with the file permissions, the server has root access to
the filesystems, the files were indeed available at the time of the
backup, and files with modification dates both before and after the
missing files were copied over.

System information
------------------
 o server is a redhat linux box running the 2.4.9-34 kernel
 o backing up a netapp unix-style filesystem, mounted over nfs
 o using rdiff-backup 0.12.0
 o using librsync-0.9.5.tar.gz

        A particularly odd example of files that weren't copied over
are one of our dump directories.  These are created nightly by an
automatic script.  They all contain the same files with similar
information and are created in the same way with the same permissions.
06/09 through 07/03 were not copied over, though everything before
06/09 and between 07/04 and the backup date were copied.

        Here's how it looks on the original filesystem:

address@hidden/netapp/acedump]% ll -d 2003-0[67]*
drwxr-xr-x   2 nobody4  nogroup     4096 Jun  1 02:21 2003-06-01-02:00//
drwxr-xr-x   2 nobody4  nogroup     4096 Jun  2 02:21 2003-06-02-02:00//
drwxr-xr-x   2 nobody4  nogroup     4096 Jun  3 02:29 2003-06-03-02:00//
drwxr-xr-x   2 nobody4  nogroup     4096 Jun  4 02:22 2003-06-04-02:00//
drwxr-xr-x   2 nobody4  nogroup     4096 Jun  5 02:35 2003-06-05-02:00//
drwxr-xr-x   2 nobody4  nogroup     4096 Jun  6 02:28 2003-06-06-02:00//
drwxr-xr-x   2 nobody4  nogroup     4096 Jun  7 02:35 2003-06-07-02:00//
drwxr-xr-x   2 nobody4  nogroup     4096 Jun  8 02:22 2003-06-08-02:00//
drwxr-xr-x   2 nobody4  nogroup     4096 Jun  9 02:22 2003-06-09-02:00//
drwxr-xr-x   2 nobody4  nogroup     4096 Jun 10 02:35 2003-06-10-02:00//
drwxr-xr-x   2 nobody4  nogroup     4096 Jun 11 02:35 2003-06-11-02:00//
drwxr-xr-x   2 nobody4  nogroup     4096 Jun 12 02:29 2003-06-12-02:00//
drwxr-xr-x   2 nobody4  nogroup     4096 Jun 13 02:29 2003-06-13-02:00//
drwxr-xr-x   2 nobody4  nogroup     4096 Jun 14 02:22 2003-06-14-02:00//
drwxr-xr-x   2 nobody4  nogroup     4096 Jun 15 02:22 2003-06-15-02:00//
drwxr-xr-x   2 nobody4  nogroup     4096 Jun 16 02:22 2003-06-16-02:00//
drwxr-xr-x   2 nobody4  nogroup     4096 Jun 17 02:29 2003-06-17-02:00//
drwxr-xr-x   2 nobody4  nogroup     4096 Jun 18 02:22 2003-06-18-02:00//
drwxr-xr-x   2 nobody4  nogroup     4096 Jun 19 02:22 2003-06-19-02:00//
drwxr-xr-x   2 nobody4  nogroup     4096 Jun 20 02:35 2003-06-20-02:00//
drwxr-xr-x   2 nobody4  nogroup     4096 Jun 21 02:22 2003-06-21-02:00//
drwxr-xr-x   2 nobody4  nogroup     4096 Jun 22 02:22 2003-06-22-02:00//
drwxr-xr-x   2 nobody4  nogroup     4096 Jun 23 02:22 2003-06-23-02:00//
drwxr-xr-x   2 nobody4  nogroup     4096 Jun 24 02:22 2003-06-24-02:00//
drwxr-xr-x   2 nobody4  nogroup     4096 Jun 25 02:36 2003-06-25-02:00//
drwxr-xr-x   2 nobody4  nogroup     4096 Jun 26 02:36 2003-06-26-02:00//
drwxr-xr-x   2 nobody4  nogroup     4096 Jun 27 02:23 2003-06-27-02:00//
drwxr-xr-x   2 nobody4  nogroup     4096 Jun 28 02:29 2003-06-28-02:00//
drwxr-xr-x   2 nobody4  nogroup     4096 Jun 29 02:23 2003-06-29-02:00//
drwxr-xr-x   2 nobody4  nogroup     4096 Jun 30 02:23 2003-06-30-02:00//
drwxr-xr-x   2 nobody4  nogroup     4096 Jul  1 02:29 2003-07-01-02:00//
drwxr-xr-x   2 nobody4  nogroup     4096 Jul  2 02:36 2003-07-02-02:00//
drwxr-xr-x   2 nobody4  nogroup     4096 Jul  3 02:36 2003-07-03-02:00//
drwxr-xr-x   2 nobody4  nogroup     4096 Jul  4 02:29 2003-07-04-02:00//
drwxr-xr-x   2 nobody4  nogroup     4096 Jul  5 02:23 2003-07-05-02:00//
drwxr-xr-x   2 nobody4  nogroup     4096 Jul  6 02:23 2003-07-06-02:00//
drwxr-xr-x   2 nobody4  nogroup     4096 Jul  7 02:23 2003-07-07-02:00//
drwxr-xr-x   2 nobody4  nogroup     4096 Jul  8 02:30 2003-07-08-02:00//
drwxr-xr-x   2 nobody4  nogroup     4096 Jul  9 02:23 2003-07-09-02:00//
drwxr-xr-x   2 nobody4  nogroup     4096 Jul 10 02:30 2003-07-10-02:00//
drwxr-xr-x   2 nobody4  nogroup     4096 Jul 11 02:30 2003-07-11-02:00//
drwxr-xr-x   2 nobody4  nogroup     4096 Jul 12 02:23 2003-07-12-02:00//
drwxr-xr-x   2 nobody4  nogroup     4096 Jul 13 02:23 2003-07-13-02:00//
drwxr-xr-x   2 nobody4  nogroup     4096 Jul 14 02:23 2003-07-14-02:00//
drwxr-xr-x   2 nobody4  nogroup     4096 Jul 15 02:24 2003-07-15-02:00//
drwxr-xr-x   2 nobody4  nogroup     4096 Jul 16 02:24 2003-07-16-02:00//
drwxr-xr-x   2 nobody4  nogroup     4096 Jul 17 02:37 2003-07-17-02:00//
drwxr-xr-x   2 nobody4  nogroup     4096 Jul 18 02:30 2003-07-18-02:00//
drwxr-xr-x   2 nobody4  nogroup     4096 Jul 19 02:30 2003-07-19-02:00//
drwxr-xr-x   2 nobody4  nogroup     4096 Jul 20 02:24 2003-07-20-02:00//
drwxr-xr-x   2 nobody4  nogroup     4096 Jul 21 02:24 2003-07-21-02:00//
drwxr-xr-x   2 nobody4  nogroup     4096 Jul 22 02:37 2003-07-22-02:00//
drwxr-xr-x   2 nobody4  nogroup     4096 Jul 23 02:24 2003-07-23-02:00//
drwxr-xr-x   2 nobody4  nogroup     4096 Jul 24 02:37 2003-07-24-02:00//

        So, I'm stumped.  Any ideas?

        Thanks,

                --Wolfe