From sm8ps-boxbackup1 at yahoo.com  Sun Nov 11 11:11:16 2018
From: sm8ps-boxbackup1 at yahoo.com (sm8ps)
Date: Sun, 11 Nov 2018 12:11:16 +0100
Subject: [Box Backup] Boxbackup 0.13 leaving bbackupd-errors and
 bbackupquery.memleaks files
Message-ID: <07c0e41d-1228-0a08-233d-9c5532199006@yahoo.com>

Hi all

In the course of a general upgrade to my servers I reinstalled Boxbackup 
server on Raspbian and the client on Ubuntu 18.04. I noticed the same 
bug about broken certificate generation as Wolfgang Trexler in August. I 
by-passed it by using the Debian package 
boxbackup-server_~~git20180313.g16a11e86-1_amd64.deb.

Prior to that I had been using Boxbackup trunk_2859M for 
armel-architecture as compiled by Leif Lindestam in 2011 for a low-spec 
D-Link DNS-323 NAS. I believe that was version 0.10, maybe 0.11. This 
was running in a remote location without any issues for more than seven 
years and I could pull out any backups I needed during that time. I had 
it backup about 550 GB over ADSL and it served me very well. -- So 
congratulations to the developers for an incredibly efficient and 
reliable product!

Now I wanted to do the same in a more modern (read: safer) version 
having the Raspberry Pi handle the connection and doing the calculations 
and the NAS providing storage via NFS. This seemed to work pretty well 
in the beginning but eventually I noticed files 
'bbackup-errors-<DATE>.log' as well as empty files 
'bbackupquery.memleaks'. Presumably they were written to my current 
working directory (four different locations in the file system) but I 
could not really make out any system behind that.

The error files contained a disturbing 300k+ lines reading something 
like "WARNING: Block 0x55d24f2cfac0 freed, but not known. Error? Or 
allocated in startup static allocation?". After that I tore down the 
Boxbackup server until recently when I decided to give it another try. 
After all it is such had been such a valuable piece of software for my 
general set-up!

Have others experienced the same kind of behavior with error files on 
the client? Unfortunately, the server installation is not available 
anymore and before setting up a new one I would like to know more about 
the status of the current version.

Thanks in advance for sharing your thoughts and a very big THANK YOU to 
the developers of Boxbackup!

Cheers!
Stefan Mueller