Post a recent upgrade of a windows environment to 2012, my affa backups started consuming space
each backup was complete, but the hard-links had started to fail
turning on debugging showed (among other entries)
Exec Out: gid 4294967295 (-1) is impossible to set on "/var/affa/AOT/scheduled.running/d/data"
if you Google that you find that this failure means the hard-link is not set
With debug on the the rsync command is shown and I was able to copy and play with it.
the ultimate test here is to use
ls -i to ensure the files point to the same inode
ls -i /var/affa/AOT/scheduled.0/d/data/filethatdidntchange.txt /var/affa/AOT/scheduled.running/d/data/filethatdidntchange.txt
the solution I've come up with is to modify the affa script to change the --archive switch which is a
super switch for several others, I've
- removed the setting of user/group permissions
- removed the inclusion of devices
my changes ...
/sbin/e-smith/affa => line 487
for rsyncdMode, the line reads
'--archive',
I've changed mine to
'--rlt',