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never end writing physical links

Asked by Bastien

Hello,

I love Back in time since many years. I had no problem with it.

Now when i try to backup my system, it's going weel until it's "wrinting physical links" and then, it works for hours and my computer is frozen. I let it go all the night long and eveything is frozen. It's the first time I have this problem. I cannot back up anymore (I've tried several times).

Do you have an idea for me ?

Thank you !

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Germar (germar) said : 		#1

please run "backintime --profile-id 1 --backup-job" in Terminal and post the output here. Replace "--profile-id 1" with your correct profile.

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Germar (germar) said : 		#2

BTW "physical links" is quite a strange translation :D These are "hard-links". It is wrong in French translation.

Would you please do me a favour and correct this in translations? I don't speak any French and would mess it up even more :D

Here is the link to edit translation:
https://translations.launchpad.net/backintime/trunk/+pots/back-in-time/fr/+translate?batch=10&show=all&search=hard-link

And here is a link to Wikipedia:
https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lien_mat%C3%A9riel

Thanks a lot!

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Bastien (bastien2300) said : 		#3

Thank you for your help.

Here is what the terminal write. And it never end. (I replace my personnal data by "aaaaaaaaaa" or so.
Thank you for your help, very appreciate !
Bastien

Back In Time
Version: 1.0.34

Back In Time comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY.
This is free software, and you are welcome to redistribute it
under certain conditions; type `backintime --license' for details.

INFO: Lock
INFO: on process begins
INFO: Profile_id: 1
INFO: Compare with old snapshot: 20150517-222844-270
rsync: readlink_stat("/var/run/media/xxxxxxxxx/yyyyyyyyyy/Back in time/backintime/zzzzzzzzzz/aaaaaaaaaa/1/20150517-222844-270/backup/media/bbbbb/cccc/dddd/y.gif") failed: Input/output error (5)
rsync: recv_generator: failed to stat "/var/run/media/xxxxxxxxx/yyyyyyyyyy/Back in time/backintime/zzzzzzzzzz/aaaaaaaaaa/1/20150517-222844-270/backup/media/bbbbb/cccc/dddd/z.gif.gif": Input/output error (5)
rsync: recv_generator: failed to stat "/var/run/media/xxxxxxxxx/yyyyyyyyyy/Back in time/backintime/zzzzzzzzzz/aaaaaaaaaa/1/20150517-222844-270/backup/media/bbbbb/cccc/dddd/y.php": Input/output error (5)
rsync: recv_generator: failed to stat "/var/run/media/xxxxxxxxx/yyyyyyyyyy/Back in time/backintime/zzzzzzzzzz/aaaaaaaaaa/1/20150517-222844-270/backup/media/bbbbb/cccc/dddd/z.php": Input/output error (5)
rsync: recv_generator: failed to stat "/var/run/media/xxxxxxxxx/yyyyyyyyyy/Back in time/backintime/zzzzzzzzzz/aaaaaaaaaa/1/20150517-222844-270/backup/media/bbbbb/cccc/dddd/a.php": Input/output error (5)
rsync: recv_generator: failed to stat "/var/run/media/xxxxxxxxx/yyyyyyyyyy/Back in time/backintime/zzzzzzzzzz/aaaaaaaaaa/1/20150517-222844-270/backup/media/bbbbb/cccc/dddd/b.php": Input/output error (5)
rsync error: some files/attrs were not transferred (see previous errors) (code 23) at main.c(1165) [sender=3.1.1]
WARNING: Command "rsync -rtDH --links --no-p --no-g --no-o --delete --delete-excluded -i --dry-run --out-format="BACKINTIME: %i %n%L" --chmod=Du+wx --exclude="/var/run/media/xxxxxx/yyyyyyyyyyy/Back in time" --exclude="/home/yyyyyyyyy/.local/share/backintime" --exclude="/tmp/backintime" --include="/home/yyyyyyyyyy/" --include="/home/" --include="/media/dddddddd/eeeeeeeee/ffffff/ggggggggggg/" --include="/media/dddddddddd/eeeeeeeee/ffffff/" --include="/media/ddddddddd/eeeeeeeeee/" --include="/media/dddddd/" --include="/media/" --exclude=".gvfs" --exclude=".cache*" --exclude="[Cc]ache*" --exclude=".thumbnails*" --exclude="[Tt]rash*" --exclude="*.backup*" --exclude="*~" --exclude="/home/xxxxxx/Ubuntu One" --exclude=".dropbox*" --exclude="/proc/*" --exclude="/sys/*" --exclude="/dev/*" --exclude="/run/*" --include="/home/ddddd/**" --include="/media/dddd/eeeeee/fffffff/ggggggggggg/**" --exclude="*" / "/var/run/media/ffffffff/gggggggggg/Back in time/backintime/ffffff/gggggggggggg/1/20150517-222844-270/backup/"" returns 5888
INFO: Create hard-links
INFO: Command "find "/var/run/media/aaaaaaaa/bbbbbbbbbb/Back in time/backintime/cccccccccc/ddddddddddd/1/20150517-222844-270/backup/" -type d -exec chmod u+wx "{}" +" returns 0

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Bastien (bastien2300) said : 		#4

Regarding the translation, I see that "Hard-links" is either "Liens matériels" or "Liens physiques" in French.
I think I don't need to change.

https://fr.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Lien_physique&redirect=no

http://www.commentcamarche.net/contents/1143-unix-les-fichiers

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Best Germar (germar) said : 		#5

Looks like your destination drive has some corrupt files. I assume you're using EXT[2 3 4] as filesystem. If you use NTFS please use a Windows host to check the drive. Please run

mount | grep /var/run/media/xxxxxx
#this will show something like /dev/sdc1 on /var/run/media/xxxxxx
#remember the /dev/sdXX
sudo umount /var/run/media/xxxxxxx
sudo e2fsck -p -f /dev/sdXX
#where /dev/sdXX is from first command

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Bastien (bastien2300) said : 		#6

Ho thank you so much: That was the problem and it's working after a drive "check & repare" !

THANK YOU !!

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Bastien (bastien2300) said : 		#7

Thanks Germar, that solved my question.

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Germar (germar) said : 		#8

I'm glad I could help! Maybe you should create one new snapshot with 'backintime --checksum --backup' to make sure no files are corrupted. It will take ages but after that you can be 100% sure that all files on your backup drive are healthy.

Thanks again for checking the translation.