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author | ben <ben@2b77aa54-bcbc-44c9-a7ec-4f6cf2b41109> | 2002-05-15 00:24:53 +0000 |
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committer | ben <ben@2b77aa54-bcbc-44c9-a7ec-4f6cf2b41109> | 2002-05-15 00:24:53 +0000 |
commit | 6b0d24eee2a2fc5652c4cb866ac390aa91d1fe24 (patch) | |
tree | a245674265a836beb73a3d39ea30f75e5db95107 /rdiff-backup | |
parent | 41d607d9cf3537481308cf98fcbb3517005afa39 (diff) | |
download | rdiff-backup-6b0d24eee2a2fc5652c4cb866ac390aa91d1fe24.tar.gz |
Misc changes (ok I forget)
git-svn-id: http://svn.savannah.nongnu.org/svn/rdiff-backup/trunk@84 2b77aa54-bcbc-44c9-a7ec-4f6cf2b41109
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-rw-r--r-- | rdiff-backup/TODO | 14 |
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diff --git a/rdiff-backup/FAQ.html b/rdiff-backup/FAQ.html index 3da178e..afd2b83 100644 --- a/rdiff-backup/FAQ.html +++ b/rdiff-backup/FAQ.html @@ -20,6 +20,9 @@ syntax". What's happening?</a></li> <li><a href="#remove_dir">My backup set contains some files that I just realized I don't want/need backed up. How do I remove them from the backup volume to save space?</li> <li><a href="#redhat">How do I install the RPMs on Redhat linux system?</a></li> + +<li><a href="#solaris">Under Solaris, rdiff-backup keeps failing with the error message "open(/dev/zero): Too many open files".</a></li> + </ol> <h2>FAQ</h2> @@ -171,13 +174,50 @@ the above steps (this is what I did). Because of all the dependencies it is usually easier to use source RPMs for this. </li> +<P> +<a name="solaris"> +<li><strong>Under Solaris, rdiff-backup keeps failing with +the error message "open(/dev/zero): Too many open files".</strong> + +<P>Kevin Spicer reported this problem and then posted the following +update: + +<pre> +Subject: RE: Crash report....still not^H^H^H working +From: "Spicer, Kevin" <Kevin.Spicer@bmrb.co.uk> +Date: Sat, 11 May 2002 23:36:42 +0100 +To: rdiff-backup@keywest.Stanford.EDU + +Quick mail to follow up on this.. +My rdiff backup (on Solaris 2.6 if you remember) has now worked +reliably for nearly two weeks after I added... + + ulimit -n unlimited + +to the start of my cron job and created a wrapper script on the remote +machine which looked like this... + + #!/bin/sh + ulimit -n unlimited + rdiff-backup --server + exit + +And changed the remote schema on the command line of rdiff-backup to +call the wrapper script rather than rdiff-backup itself on the remote +machine. As for the /dev/zero thing I've done a bit of Googleing and +it seems that /dev/zero is used internally by libthread on Solaris +(which doesn't really explain why its opening more than 64 files - but +at least I think I've now got round it). + +</pre> +</li> </ol> <hr> <a href="http://www.stanford.edu/~bescoto">Ben Escoto</a> <address><a href="mailto:bescoto@stanford.edu"><bescoto@stanford.edu></a></address> <!-- Created: Fri Sep 7 15:34:45 PDT 2001 --> <!-- hhmts start --> -Last modified: Mon Apr 29 23:59:11 PDT 2002 +Last modified: Sat May 11 19:26:17 PDT 2002 <!-- hhmts end --> </body> </html> diff --git a/rdiff-backup/TODO b/rdiff-backup/TODO index ecac2b7..66a8d3a 100644 --- a/rdiff-backup/TODO +++ b/rdiff-backup/TODO @@ -5,14 +5,14 @@ logging stats Add to above Dean Gaudet's suggestion: make errors look prettier (like tar). -Add new restore option - bring directory to state it was in, say, 5 -days ago, etc. +Examine certain network settings like Globals.conn_bufsize and whether +or not ssh is used with compression, and find good defaults or add +easy to use switches. -Michael S. Muegel suggestion: "--char-translate source-char -replacement-string" for use between windows/unix conversions, e.g. ':' -to _colon_. Also distinguish new vs changed update in lvl 5 logging. +Examine and fix recovery problems. +Add options to pass to ssh (e.g. compression, maybe arbitrary options). -Bugs: +Think about adding Gaudet's idea for keeping track of renamed files. -Jamie Heilman's race condition
\ No newline at end of file +--read-only and --write-only /usr/foo switches to tighten security up some. |