Re: [flexbackup-help] Help please:

[Roger P. <rj...@un...>]

On Mon, 10 Mar 2003 08:02:26 -0700
Edwin Huffstutler <ed...@co...> wrote:

> 
> [ Roger Pryor wrote: ]
> > and the error that I get is 
> >  Can't tie DB /backup/full3/state/index: Resource temporarily
> >  unavailable
> > 
> > both with the older version and with the current version.
> > 
> > Obviously I am doing something wrong, but what?
> 
> No idea.  It can't access the index db for some reason.
> 
> It actually doesn't matter for extract/list.  Just give "-d
> indexes=false" on your extract command line and you should be fine.
> 
> The inability to tie to the db can come from:
> 
>   - permission problems 
>   - backing up on one system and trying to access the db file on a
>     different one, that has uses a different backend for perl's AnyDBM.
> 
> and others I'm sure.  I have no idea what you are hitting, but it's
> something specific to your setup I think.
> 
> Future versions already don't tie to the db for extract/list kinds of
> operations since it's unneeded anyway.
> 
> Hope this helps.
> 
> -- 
>  Edwin Huffstutler     Linux - because reboots are for hardware changes
>  ed...@co...   GnuPG Key ID: AE782DC9
> 

Thank you very much:  that solved the problem for me.  It is a bit of an
unusual setup.  Thanks also for the system:  I've been very pleased,
having tried a few others whith varying degrees of luck.


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