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Re: [rdiff-backup-users] Socket error: AF_UNIX path too long
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devzero |
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Re: [rdiff-backup-users] Socket error: AF_UNIX path too long |
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Sat, 13 May 2006 18:39:38 +0200 |
Hello Chris,
> 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.
i`m not sure if backup up a socket makes sense at all, but you could be right
with this.
> That's strange, I can't see how rsync could create or copy a unix socket
> (minus its controlling process) either.
it does, since i can see the socket in my rsync target-directory:
srwxrwxrwx 1 mysql daemon 0 Apr 28 01:43 mysql.sock
> 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?
no, impossible, because rdiff-backup always is started directly _after_ the
rsync.
but after further investigation, i now see a corellation:
i restarted mysql. this re-creates the socket and thus changes the timestamp -
and this is what makes rdiff-backup report the error:
zcat error_log.2006-05-13T18\:28\:37+02\:00.data.gz
SpecialFileError var/lib/mysql/mysql.sock Socket error: AF_UNIX path too long
can you reproduce ?
i CC`ed this to ben, because i think this is could be a minor bug of
rdiff-backup. reporting an error where really isn`t one is not good at all.
regards
roland
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