Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (2700 mails)

[Coach-X <coachx@xxxxxxx>]

Ulf Rasch wrote:

> On Thursday 07 July 2005 19:10, Coach-X wrote:
> 
>>I run rsync every hour to backup log files and sometimes I get the
>>following error:
>>
>>*** glibc detected *** free(): invalid pointer: 0xb7fb207c ***
>>/home/coach/crons/sync_logs.sh: line 4: 22285 Aborted /usr/bin/rsync
> 
> Well, I don't know anything about the internals of rsync or the glibc but an 
> abort means that that the program terminated abnormally.
> 
> 
>>I cant tell if the backup fails, as it runs again the following hour. 
> 
> Why not?
> Compare the backup files with the original and you will know.

The file is overwritten each hour.

> 
>>Is 
>>this anything to worry about?
> 
> Well, how important is the backup to you? 
> You will have your reason to do it every hour and not once a day.
> 
> A backup that is not valid is useless.

Obviously.