Re: [rdiff-backup-users] ignore file access error

[Dominic Raferd]

Martin:

See the response on this issue at 
http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/rdiff-backup-users/2004-06/msg00071.html 
by Ben Escoto who wrote the original rdiff-backup:

> The error is probably caused by files changing as rdiff-backup
> processes them.  If this happens, rdiff-backup doesn't touch the file
> for the session, leaving it as it was previously.  See
> http://rdiff-backup.stanford.edu/error_policy.html  for more
> information.
>
> You could just ignore these errors, and assume that rdiff-backup will
> eventually find the file not changing under it.  Another, possibly
> more principled, option is to use LVM snapshots or something similar
> (I have no experience with these though).

I've never seen this error message myself but then I always backup from 
snapshots - Windows and Linux :-)

Regards, Dominic

On 13/03/2014 20:23, Martin Mazur wrote:
> Hello everyone,
>
> for a few weeks I am using rdiff-backup and I am very happy with it.
>
>   From time to time Cron is sending me errors like this:
>
> UpdateError website/logs/ssl_access.log Updated mirror temp file
> /var/data/backup/www/website/logs/rdiff-backup.tmp.213 does not match
> source
>
> Since there is not much I can do about this error I don't wont it to be
> displayed. Is there a way of doing this?
>
> Thanks & best regards
>
> Martin


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