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.