[16402] in Athena Bugs
sgi 8.2.10: mtools
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Joseph Sokol-Margolis)
Mon Oct 12 03:48:49 1998
To: bugs@MIT.EDU
Date: Mon, 12 Oct 1998 03:48:45 EDT
From: Joseph Sokol-Margolis <seph@MIT.EDU>
System name: opus.mit.edu
Type and version: IP22 8.2.10 (with mkserv)
Display type: GR3-XZ
What were you trying to do?
back up a user's homedir using mbackup
on a cluster SGI
What's wrong:
I got errors I shouldn't have, and the backup failed
without claiming to have failed
What should have happened:
it should have worked, or at least claimed to have failed
Please describe any relevant documentation references:
none. (no man page)
Better description:
while helping a user back his files up to zip, using mbackup
I encountered a couple problems.
if the user has a file with special characters such as "(" or ")" the
script generates a line like "mcopy (null).foo y:", then when it execs
it, mcopy dies, and the script exits saying bad line on <line number,
but not saying the backup failed. presumably there should be more
quoting, or escaping of some characters.
the second problem, which is less bug, and more a want for a better
error handling. when the user tries to copy too many directories. it
seems like dos has some limit as to the number of directories per
partition, and mmd gives the error "No directory slots" if you hit
that. mbackup keeps on running, then starts spewing errors about non
existent files as it tries to populate the non-existent subdir.
also a man page would be nice.
seph
