[Box Backup] ERROR: Failed to get extended attributes for '...': Argument list too long

Yang Zhang yanghatespam at gmail.com
Sun Apr 17 07:27:40 BST 2011


I got an error from boxbackup.  syslog says:

Apr 16 23:06:15 zs bbackupd[16807]: ERROR: Failed to get extended
attributes for '/.../testnet/': Argument list too long (7)
Apr 16 23:06:15 zs bbackupd[16807]: WARNING: Exception thrown:
CommonException(OSFileError) at BackupClientFileAttributes.cpp(561)
Apr 16 23:06:15 zs bbackupd[16807]: WARNING: Failed to read attributes
of directory, cannot check for rename, assuming new: '/.../testnet'
Apr 16 23:06:15 zs bbackupd[16807]: ERROR: Failed to get extended
attributes for '/.../testnet': Argument list too long (7)
Apr 16 23:06:15 zs bbackupd[16807]: WARNING: Exception thrown:
CommonException(OSFileError) at BackupClientFileAttributes.cpp(561)
Apr 16 23:06:15 zs bbackupd[16807]: ERROR: Exception caught (Common
OSFileError (Error accessing a file. Check permissions.) 1/9), reset
state and waiting to retry...

Indeed, getfattr on that directory gave me the "Argument list too
long" error.  I don't yet understand what it means, but I'm wondering
if there's any way to have boxbackup ignore the bad extended attribute
and continue backing up the rest of my system.  Thanks.

-- 
Yang Zhang
http://yz.mit.edu/



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