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Re: [rdiff-backup-users] Socket error: AF_UNIX path too long
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Chris Wilson |
Subject: |
Re: [rdiff-backup-users] Socket error: AF_UNIX path too long |
Date: |
Sat, 13 May 2006 15:38:06 +0000 (GMT) |
Hi Devzero,
On Sat, 13 May 2006, address@hidden wrote:
error_log is empty everyday, but i found that on april 29, there is some
weird error inside:
[...]
$ zcat error_log.2006-04-29T02\:18\:43+02\:00.data.gz
SpecialFileError var/lib/mysql/mysql.sock AF_UNIX path too long
SpecialFileError var/run/authdaemon.courier-imap/socket Socket error: AF_UNIX
path too long
does anybody have a clue, what this means and why this only happened on april
29 ?
I get this (bizarre and confusing) error every single time I try to back
up a Unix socket. I don't even want to back up these sockets, or
understand what sense it would make, since they are created by and tied to
a running application, and restoring them without the application would
not be possible or useful. So I don't understand why rdiff-backup doesn't
silently ignore them. I end up having to exclude them from my backups, one
by one, to shut up the error.
mysql and courier is running permanently on the remote-machine, so those
"socket files" should be the same everyday.
btw: i`m first rsyncing the contents to a local directory and then make
an rdiff-backup from that, because i cannot install rdiff-backup on the
target machine.
That's strange, I can't see how rsync could create or copy a unix socket
(minus its controlling process) either.
Is it possible that on that day (April 29th) an rsync was running while
rdiff-backup was running at the same time? Perhaps if the previous
rdiff-backup took a long time, and another rsync (for the next day)
started while the previous backup was still running?
Cheers, Chris.
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