Re: Fatal: Lock Found

ha! finally an email which isn't spam :)

[On 24 Aug, @18:55, Jon wrote in "[hdup-user] Fatal: Lock Found ..."]
> I got hdup latest version, and i got it working so it backups a specified dir
> on local on a remote computer but i played around a bit with the gentoo
> keychain utility to be able to backup without pass, but then when i was on my
> way for a test it gave me the following error: 

doing the backup as user 'root' is not a good idea. It's better to
create a new user that does the backups for you. This should only 
be able to put archives on the remote machine, nothing more.

> [root@localhost root]# cd /etc/hdup
> [root@localhost hdup]# hdup -c hdup.conf monthly webserver @[email protected]
> hdup: webserver: STARTING BACKUP.
> hdup: FATAL: webserver: LOCK found (created: Sun Aug 24 16:07:04 2003).
> 
> [root@localhost hdup]#
> 
> what does it mean and how do i solve it? I run red hat 9.0.

it means that on webserver a lock was found in the backup directory
hdup uses. The only way it can be created is by running hdup and
aborting the run (control-c). [ I should really catch that and remove
the lockfile from inside hdup...]. So you have probably done a
backup on this sunday at 16:07 and pressed control-c.

To solve, delete the LOCK file and try again,

grtz  Miek

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