Tino writes:

> I found a problem. IO::Dirent returns 0 as the type for the directories,
> so BackupPC::Lib->find() doesn't descent into them. Why it does so if
> run manually - I don't know.
> 
> It does return a type 4 on ext3, on xfs it's always 0.

Good detective work.

There is a check in BackupPC::Lib that should catch this.
I'm not sure why that check passes in this case.  Here's
the code:

    BEGIN {
        eval "use IO::Dirent qw( readdirent DT_DIR );";
        if ( !$@ && opendir(my $fh, ".") ) {
            #
            # Make sure the IO::Dirent really works - some installs
            # on certain file systems don't return a valid type.
            #
            my $dt_dir = eval("DT_DIR");
            foreach my $e ( readdirent($fh) ) {
                if ( $e->{name} eq "." && $e->{type} == $dt_dir ) {
                    $IODirentOk = 1;
                    last;
                }
            }
            closedir($fh);
        }
    };

Ah, I bet "." (where BackupPC is running) is on an ext3 file system,
where is should be checking $TopDir.

Unfortunately this test is done before the config file has been read.
I would guess that if you replace this line:

        if ( !$@ && opendir(my $fh, ".") ) {

with your hardcoded TopDir, eg:

        if ( !$@ && opendir(my $fh, "/data/BackupPC") ) {

then the correct thing should happen (IO::Dirent should be disabled).

If you can confirm that, then the fix is I should delay the check on
IO::Dirent until after TopDir is known.

Craig

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