Re: [Help-tar] tar: Child returned status 1, Error is not recoverable: exiting now

[Robert Kudyba]

On Feb 8, 2017, at 9:55 AM, Pavel Raiskup <address@hidden> wrote:

On Wednesday, February 8, 2017 9:39:39 AM CET Robert Kudyba wrote:

On Feb 8, 2017, at 9:34 AM, Pavel Raiskup <address@hidden> wrote:

On Wednesday, February 8, 2017 9:11:50 AM CET Robert Kudyba wrote:

It varies depending on the excludes and what part of the file system we are
backing up. That’s why I included the actual backup script. But for arguments
sake here would be one example:

Robert, we need to rule out the possibility that you in reality accidentally use
--atime-preserve, so generated example is not enough.

In the /etc/drobo-backup.conf file I have these 2 options:

backup = /home/users --atime-preserve ......

                      ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Is this the issue?

Pavel

Hi Pavel finally getting back around to this. Notice the exclude directive is included. Here’s a comment we have in the config file:

# Change default tar arguments if desired.  By default these are:

#tarargs=--atime-preserve --one-file-system

# Because aquota.user cannot have its atime reset, tar will give

# an error status=2 if --atime-preserve is used when backing it up.

# We don't want to lose the backup of this file but we also don't

# want to routinely ignore tar status=2.  Solution is to make

# --atime-preserve a per-backup argument and omit it when backing

# up aquota.user separately.

# IMPORTANT: include --atime-preserve on all of these except aquota.user

Here are the options we have set for backup paths:

backup = /home/users --atime-preserve --exclude=aquota.user --exclude=.gvfs --exclude=S.gpg-agent --exclude=.adobe  --exclude=.dropbox --exclude=.cache --exclude-caches-all

backup = /home/users/aquota.user

backup = /home --atime-preserve --exclude=.gvfs --exclude=.gnupg  --exclude=aquota.user

Still getting these errors:

/bin/tar: home/users/aquota.user: Cannot utime: Operation not permitted

/bin/tar: Exiting with failure status due to previous errors

Backup of /home/users FAILED

Backed up /home/users to /ourdomain/home-users-FAILED.tgz