Backup failed to create hard link on RHEL 5.3

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I had upgraded our Domino Server from 6.5 to 8.5 and it was migrated from Windows 2003 to RHEL 5.3 x86_64. On RHEL 5.3 I use cp command to make weekly backup for the entire directory /local/notesdata. The copying process runs almost successfully except some error message about creating hard links. To briefing this issue, I use two pseudo users as Tom and Bob in the subdirectory of /local/notesdata/mail and the errors messages generated by cron daemon are

P.S. the directory of /opt/transfer …

 is the destination of backup files

/bin/cp: will not create hard link /opt/transfer/download/10-07-2009/notesdata/mail/Tom.ft/ftgi/Itemdel' to directory /opt/transfer/download/10-07-2009/notesdata/mail/Bob.ft/ftgi/Itemdel’

/bin/cp: will not create hard link /opt/transfer/download/10-07-2009/notesdata/mail/Tom.ft/ftgi/Fullsupp' to directory /opt/transfer/download/10-07-2009/notesdata/mail/Bob.ft/ftgi/Fullsupp’

/bin/cp: will not create hard link /opt/transfer/download/10-07-2009/notesdata/mail/Tom.ft/ftgi/Fulldel' to directory /opt/transfer/download/10-07-2009/notesdata/mail/Bob.ft/ftgi/Fullsupp/gtr.LEY’

/bin/cp: will not create hard link /opt/transfer/download/10-07-2009/notesdata/mail/Tom.ft/ftgi/Itemsupp' to directory /opt/transfer/download/10-07-2009/notesdata/mail/Bobft/ftgi/Itemsupp’

At first backup completed, I thought the problem just existed between Tom’s and Bob’s mail directories. However, the next backup jobs done showed that such errors could emerge among other users. I had no clue about this since every user’s directory should be independent from each other under the mail/ directory. Any idea about this?

Thanks in advance.

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Subject: I wouldn’t backup the Index Folders

Hi,

it is not necassary to backup the folders of your fulltext indexes.

All folders with .ft arent’t user folders! They only hold the index.

Greets

Christoph

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Subject: Does it matter when recovery is needed without .ft

Hi, If it is not necessary to backup .ft directories, will anything go wrong when recoovery is needed? For recovery procedure, I just dump all the backup directories back into the directory of /local/notesdata. As you mentioned, it is O.K. when my recovered domino server runs first without .ft directories. Am I right?

Greetings,

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Subject: Restore

When you restore, you only have to restore the .nsf Files (the databases) and after this you create a new index for these files.

A restored index normally works, hmm let me say: strange.

When you restore the whole data-Folder, then normally you shouldn’t restore any index-Folder.

Regards

Stoeps