[Borgbackup] Data integrity error: Invalid segment entry size 0 - too small

Sascha Ternes imperator at jedimail.de
Fri Mar 8 15:04:32 EST 2019


Am 08.03.19 um 20:17 schrieb Michael Siepmann:
> On 3/8/19 9:30 AM, Sascha Ternes wrote:
>> Am 08.03.19 um 16:37 schrieb Michael Siepmann:
>>> I tried "borg -v check --repository-only $REPOSITORY" before, without
>>> the repair option, and it did nothing beyond saying "Starting repository
>>> check" for many hours. I'm running that again now (without the repair
>>> option for now). How long might I need to wait to let it complete?
>> Try borg check with -p / --progress which will give you a percentage
>> indicator.
> 
> Thank you. That's very helpful. It's taken 130 min to get to "Checking
> segments 8.1%" so I can infer it will probably take almost 27 hours in
> total to finish checking the segments.

No. This is a file counter. In a repository with much deduplication you
will have a lot of very small data files ("segments"). These will be
checked very fast, compared to the big segments of your very first
archive in this repository. I guess it will take much less than 27 hours.


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