Re: [BackupPC-users] Cannot compress negative numbers in pack at <snip>/Attrib.pm line 295

[Garith D. <ga...@sa...>]

Hi Craig,

Is there a specific file I could edit to do what you mentioned in your previous mail?

"The fix was to wrap the unpack in an eval()."

Thanks,

----- Original Message -----
> From: "Garith Dugmore" <ga...@sa...>
> To: "Craig Barratt" <cba...@us...>
> Cc: bac...@li...
> Sent: Friday, 3 September, 2010 2:58:57 PM
> Subject: Re: [BackupPC-users] Cannot compress negative numbers in pack at <snip>/Attrib.pm line 295
> Hi Craig,
> 
> No luck unfortunately.
> 
> I downloaded BackupPC 3.2.0 and ran ./configure. After answering all
> the questions and restarting BackupPC I see it says it is in fact
> version 3.2.
> 
> After running the backup on that same host I get the same error:
> 
> 2010-09-03 13:19:28 <serverhostname>: Cannot compress negative numbers
> in pack at /usr/local/BackupPC/lib/BackupPC/Attrib.pm line 302.
> 
> Different line number though - probably because its updated now.
> 
> Info on system now after upgrade:
> 
> File-RsyncP-0.70
> perl 5.8.8
> BackupPC 3.2.0
> 
> Thanks in advance,
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Craig Barratt" <cba...@us...>
> > To: "Garith Dugmore" <ga...@sa...>
> > Cc: bac...@li...
> > Sent: Thursday, 2 September, 2010 7:51:56 AM
> > Subject: Re: [BackupPC-users] Cannot compress negative numbers in
> > pack at <snip>/Attrib.pm line 295
> > Garith,
> >
> > > As the subject suggestions I'm getting an error on a host I'm
> > > attempting to backup. The exact error as it stands in the error
> > > log
> > > shows (server name removed):
> > >
> > > 2010-09-01 12:08:28 <serverhostname>: Cannot compress negative
> > > numbers in pack at /usr/local/BackupPC/lib/BackupPC/Attrib.pm line
> > > 295.
> > > 2010-09-01 12:08:35 Backup failed on <serverhostname> (Child
> > > exited
> > > prematurely)
> > >
> > > I found the following post from 2004 ->
> > > http://osdir.com/ml/sysutils.backup.backuppc.general/2004-03/msg00066.html
> > > and the solution was to change file
> > > File-RsyncP-0.46/FileList/FileList.xs. I checked this file on my
> > > system and it already has those changes.
> >
> > I'm not sure of the root cause, but in BackupPC 3.2.0 there is a
> > fix to make sure this is a non-fatal error. The fix was to wrap
> > the unpack in an eval().
> >
> > Craig
> 
> --
> 
> Garith Dugmore
> 
> 
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