Re: [Bobs-devel] Todos -> Logs?

[Joe Z. <joe...@za...>]

Manfred Rebentisch wrote:

>Am Montag, 17. Januar 2005 07:39 schrieb Joe Zacky:
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>>It's been working very well the past week. I get a short email after
>>each backup, if it failed I take a look at bobs.log to see why.  I've
>>done the smb and rsync-ssh templates, still need to do the others. I'm
>>also looking into some other errors I see in bobs.log, mostly having to
>>do with stat() and is_dir() on very large files failing while building
>>the indexes after the backup has run. It seems it's a libc or glibc
>>problem, but I need to handle the failure properly in the script.
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>This is a problem of PHP. The PHP-Engine and all add-ons have to be compiled 
>with the Option -D _FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 . 
>Without this option the stat member st_size (type off_t) has only 32 Bit.
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>I did not know, if we can compile PHP with this option, because there are more 
>changes needed (or the developers were very strong while using types).
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>The glibc does support it very well.
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>Manfred
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Thank you for that explanation, Manfred.

My philosophy is to support the lowest. common denominator. In other 
words, it should work on a standard installation. So I'm going to see if 
I can simply handle that error in the php script and do some appropriate 
default action. For example, if it gets that error on an is_dir(), maybe 
I can just assume it's not a directory. I'll have to take a closer look 
at the script.

Joe