Unfortunately no one can be told what fun_plug is - you have to see it for yourself.
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Hello everybody
I have faced yesterday a problem, which I have solved, so this is not a blocking situation for me. I post here to inform you, and to know if somebody saw this before, or has an explanation.
I am using rsync to backup directories from my Ubuntu/Edgy computer to the DNS323. I have fonz's fun_plug on it, using NFS. My first idea was to rsync through the NFS mount point. This worked OK, *except* for logical links (files linked with "ln -s"). Apparently, rsync is unable to "chown" them, issuing an error: "rsync: chown <file path> failed: Stale NFS file handle (116)". The result is that all files are "backuped", but all logical links are "root:root" on the backup. The owner for other files is correct.
I looked around on the interned for this error, but found nothing closely related. I must say that, when "rsyncing" to an external USB disk (which was the way I did before using the DNS323, I did not have this problem).
I solved this by using the rsync --daemon on the DNS323 (thank you Fonz again) instead of the NFS mount , so, again, this is not a blocking point.
Any idea?
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I've seen this myself, but haven't come to do investigate it further. A solution to this seems to be related to a "no_subtree_check" option in the exports file, but unfs3 doesn't seem to support this. One could try to start unfsd with the "-b" option which claims to prevent stale file handles in some cases.
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Which parameters do you use to rsync? Anyway just a useful hint. Have you had a look at rsnapshot? It is very cool for backing up unix systems.
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Hello again
- for frodo: I don't have here the exact command line, I will post it this evening from home. One thing I can say is that there is nothing exotic in it (-av, -backup option, plus some exclude files, etc..), it worked perfectly on a USB disk and works now with rsync daemon (using the network name). I would then say that the problem comes from NFS rather than rsync... And as I wrote, using rsync daemon (so without NFS) worfs perfectly, so there is no need for me to look for another backup tool, rsync is nice.
- for fonz: I will make a test with -b and keep you informed.
Thanks
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fonz,
Yes it requires perl. I chroot to debian.
dkl,
rsnaphot i using rsync but you get snapshots. It is way cool. I use it to backup my private linux server.
It roughly uses the space of two full backups. Depending on how much changes you do on your server that is.
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