[rhel - user] backup error message in mail

[m.roth at 5-cent.us]

Hi, Constance,

Constance   Morris wrote:
>
> Has anyone ever received the following 2 types of backup error messages in
> their linux mail:
>
> 1.)
>
> tar: Error exit delayed from previous errors
> Backup complete...taking CP out of hot backup mode at: Tue May 7 02:54:20

This one reminds me of when either a) the filesystem's full, or b) trying
to back up something that shouldn't be backed up, like /dev/<anything>...
or maybe the tarfile it's creating, itself. You might try running it
manually, and see what happens.

<snip>
> 2.)
>
>>From user at portal.domain.edu  Tue Apr 30 05:55:13 2013
> Date: Tue, 30 Apr 2013 05:55:12 -0400
> From: user at portal.domain.edu (Cron Daemon)
> To: user at portal.domain.edu
> Subject: Cron <user at portal> /opt/luminis/bin/hotbackoff
> X-Cron-Env: <SHELL=/bin/sh>
> X-Cron-Env: <HOME=/home/user>
> X-Cron-Env: <PATH=/usr/bin:/bin>
> X-Cron-Env: <LOGNAME=user>
> X-Cron-Env: <USER=user>
> System hot backup state has been set to off.
>
> I've never seen these before. Any suggestions?

This clearly has to do with some software that I'm not familiar with, or
you've got a mirror site, and there's some issue with the mirror.

       mark