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Affa - Windows (2012)

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Brave Dave:
Post a recent upgrade of a windows environment to 2012, my affa backups started consuming space

each backup was complete, but the hard-links had started to fail

turning on debugging showed (among other entries)

--- Quote ---Exec Out: gid 4294967295 (-1) is impossible to set on "/var/affa/AOT/scheduled.running/d/data"

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if you Google that you find that this failure means the hard-link is not set

With debug on the the rsync command is shown and I was able to copy and play with it.

the ultimate test here is to use ls -i to ensure the files point to the same inode

--- Quote ---ls -i /var/affa/AOT/scheduled.0/d/data/filethatdidntchange.txt /var/affa/AOT/scheduled.running/d/data/filethatdidntchange.txt

--- End quote ---

the solution I've come up with is to modify the affa script to change the --archive switch which is a super switch for several others, I've

* removed the setting of user/group permissions
* removed the inclusion of devices
my changes ...
/sbin/e-smith/affa => line 487

for rsyncdMode, the line reads

--- Quote ---   '--archive',

--- End quote ---

I've changed mine to

--- Quote ---   '--rlt',

--- End quote ---

nicolatiana:
Just to point out: the environment is an Affa server on SME 7/8 backing up a Windows Server 2012 box ?
 
Bye
 
Nicola

Brave Dave:
Yes
There seems to be a mapping of ownership issue - there may be another way to work around this - perhaps a rsync.conf config change, but this doesn't seem to have any adverse affect - permissions aren't important (to me) on the windows box

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