[Borgbackup] Lock error

[Steve Schow]

it is remotely possible that the one time this happened to me before was exactly because of the cron thing because I had scheduled a cron to do it, while this job was still in progress…..and the next day it may have tried to run again while the first one was still running.  Unfortunately I wasn’t redirecting logging yet when that “might” have happened…so I don’t have any way to know.  I will be implementing a mechanism to prevent borg from being able to run over itself..  I had to go back and delete several check point files and restart the backup using an archive name from the day before (since the name of the archive was using a datestamp), and its been running fine ever since…I hope almost done.

back to my original question…  how can I automatically clean up the lock files when this happens again?

Did anyone have a look at my bash shell traps?


On May 16, 2016, at 10:08 AM, Adrian Klaver <adrian.klaver at aklaver.com> wrote:

> On 05/16/2016 09:03 AM, Steve Schow wrote:
>> It hasn’t happened again, so i can’t replicate it.  Well actually I can easily..by simply hitting ctrl-C while its running it ends up in the broken lock state.
>> 
>> However I have low confidence in using borg for automated backups at this point due to this.
> 
> Well I use it on multiple machines to back up data from even more machines via cron jobs that run day and night and the only problems I have had are self inflicted. Namely that I was not paying attention and had cron jobs walk over the same repo at the same time. The worse that happened was that particular backup failed, but the next succeeded.
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>> 
>> 
>> On May 16, 2016, at 2:18 AM, Thomas Waldmann <tw at waldmann-edv.de> wrote:
>> 
>>> There is a problem why borg can't finish the backup (crashes or gets killed, leaves the lock behind)
>>> 
>>> That is the root cause you need to find and fix.
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