Re: ANN: Backup Bouncer -- a metadata test suite
Re: ANN: Backup Bouncer -- a metadata test suite
- Subject: Re: ANN: Backup Bouncer -- a metadata test suite
- From: Nathaniel Gray <email@hidden>
- Date: Mon, 7 May 2007 12:36:10 -0700
On May 7, 2007, at 6:37 AM, Axel Luttgens wrote:
I re-read your previous post several times.
For example, you wrote: "I booted from the Tiger install DVD,
mounted both my drives, and started my copy, being sure to use
the path to the up-to-date rsync on my system drive. The
result? My copy was a disaster."
What's the OS version on that DVD?
10.4.0 presumably, since it was bought the day Tiger was released.
OK, this explains that: rsync -E was almost unusable at the time of
10.4.
Yes, but as I said, I didn't use the rsync on the DVD, I used the one
on my system disk. I booted from the DVD and used something like /
Volumes/VolName/usr/bin/rsync to get the 10.4.9 version on my hard
drive. I even tried to use DYLD_LIBRARY_PATH to make sure dynamic
libraries came from the right place, but I have no idea if that
worked or not.
Ok. As I said, the tests started failing on 4/24. Here's the
tail of my software update log:
2007-03-14 12:08:14 -0700: Installed "Mac OS X Update
(PowerPC)" (10.4.9)
2007-03-31 21:16:10 -0700: Installed "iTunes" (7.1.1)
2007-04-22 23:43:29 -0700: Installed "Security Update 2007-004
(PowerPC)" (1.0)
2007-05-02 14:06:55 -0700: Installed "QuickTime" (7.1.6)
I guess I was somewhat mistaken about the chronology -- I
installed the update just before my *first* backup attempt (the
one that failed). But you can see there was no update on 4/24.
Right, but 2007-004v1.0 has been installed April 22th, late in the
night.
Have you rebooted your laptop immediately after that installation,
or have you waited somewhat before rebooting?
Did you have lots of open/running applications while installing the
update?
As I said, I installed it just before backing up my system (which I
left going overnight), which involved rebooting from the Tiger DVD to
make sure my system wasn't in use during the backup. I have no idea
what was running when I installed the update.
Anyway, other people tend to relate the problem to Security
Update 2007-004 (v1.0 as well as v1.1) too.
Could you have a look at:
<http://lists.apple.com/archives/macos-x-server/2007/May//
msg00040.html>
and subsequent messages?
If it's related to SU2007-4 it's a very strange correlation. I
was testing for 2 days after that update before the "change"
happened.
With a bit luck, if you haven't changed the default launch times
for the periodic scripts, your wtmp and system.log logs still
contain info about reboots (and much more) back to April.
Indeed. After checking my logs I can once again verify that there
was no reboot on April 24. There was one on the 23'rd at about 3 PM,
then one on the 28'th.
Cheers,
-n8
--
>>>-- Nathaniel Gray -- Caltech Computer Science ------>
>>>-- Mojave Project -- http://mojave.cs.caltech.edu -->
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