From 6b0d24eee2a2fc5652c4cb866ac390aa91d1fe24 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: ben Date: Wed, 15 May 2002 00:24:53 +0000 Subject: Misc changes (ok I forget) git-svn-id: http://svn.savannah.nongnu.org/svn/rdiff-backup/trunk@84 2b77aa54-bcbc-44c9-a7ec-4f6cf2b41109 --- rdiff-backup/FAQ.html | 42 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++- rdiff-backup/TODO | 14 +++++++------- 2 files changed, 48 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-) 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?
  • 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?
  • How do I install the RPMs on Redhat linux system?
    • + +
  • Under Solaris, rdiff-backup keeps failing with the error message "open(/dev/zero): Too many open files".
    • +

    FAQ

    @@ -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. +

    + +

  • Under Solaris, rdiff-backup keeps failing with +the error message "open(/dev/zero): Too many open files". + +

    Kevin Spicer reported this problem and then posted the following +update: + +

    +Subject: RE: Crash report....still not^H^H^H working
+From: "Spicer, Kevin" 
+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).
+
+
    +
    • Ben Escoto
    <bescoto@stanford.edu>
    -Last modified: Mon Apr 29 23:59:11 PDT 2002 +Last modified: Sat May 11 19:26:17 PDT 2002 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. -- cgit v1.2.1