Re: [flexbackup-help] Flexbackup error: offending command afio -o -E <non existent file>?!?

[Scott C. <sc...@bn...>]

On Friday 05 November 2004 10:06, G=F6ran T=F6rnqvist wrote:
>
> -1 "Defined letters are a for ignoring all possible warnings on exit, and=
 m
> for ignoring the warning about missing files, which will occur when, on
> creating an archive, a file whose name was read  from  the standard  input
> is  not found.  The default is -1 m."
>
> So if the file is missing it shouldn't return an error, right, so my
> assumption is that the error here should be something different.

Could be.  I am not sure what your error might be.  One of the uses I put
flexbackup to is to back up some Windows 2000 PCs.  I have their C drives
mounted onto my backup server.  When flexbackup runs it sometimes finds
files on the PCs which are locked (typically mail files).  I have the "-1 a"
parameter set for afio, but it still seems to return an error for this.
(I guess software does not always perform as advertised, or I am mis-
understanding its behavior. :)

> Anyway when=20
> I tried to change to "-1 a" checking /etc/flexbackup.conf ,the -1 m switch
> wasn't there. I'll need to read and learn more about flexbackup I guess :)

You need to look in the flexbackup script itself, not the flexbackup.conf
file.  On my Debian systems it is in /usr/bin.  It is just a (very large!)
perl script which you can edit.  (Make a backup copy first.)  Search for
the "-1 m" string.

> I will check the flexbackup -ignore-errors if that switch can help me. But
> is that "good behavior", to tell flexbackup to ignore errors?

Well, it may not be "good behavior" in some universal moral sense, but it
solves the problem and the backups get done.  (For my needs anyway, your
milage may very.)

Scott

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* Scott Coburn
* Brookhaven National Laboratory
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