Re: [BackupPC-users] saving old XferLOG.bad files

[Dan P. <da...@in...>]

On Thu, Sep 27, 2007 at 12:06:48PM -0400, Dan Pritts wrote:
> I'm having "signal=pipe" issues with rsync backups, linux to linux,
> all of a sudden on 2 of my 35 clients.
> 
> I'd like to compare the xferlog.bad from multiple attempts to see what,
> if any, pattern there is.  I can't figure out how to get backuppc to save
> the xferlog.bad files; it seems to overwrite with each failed attempt.

In case someone else needs to do this, I hacked a solution with a
DumpPostUserCmd pointing to a script that does this:

 #!/bin/sh
 
 cd /backuppc/pc/hostname-here
 
 NEWDIR=`date +%Y%m%d-%H:%M`
 mkdir $NEWDIR
 cd $NEWDIR
 ln ../XferLOG* .

danno
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