On a busy Red Hat Satellite6 , online backup fails with errors due to changing files
Issue
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During the course of a Red Hat Satellite backup using the
foreman-maintain
tool, the backup can fail with errors abouttar
being unable to gather certain files because they've been removed since the backup started.# backupdir=/tmp/backup/ ; foreman-maintain backup online --assumeyes --skip-pulp-content $backupdir (output truncated) tar: /var/lib/candlepin/activemq-artemis/journal/activemq-data-7.amq: file changed as we read it tar: /var/lib/qpidd/.qpidd/qls/p001/efp/2048k/in_use/3UUID.jrnl: File removed before we read it tar: /var/lib/qpidd/.qpidd/qls/p001/efp/2048k/in_use/UUID.jrnl: File removed before we read it
Additional info: This is similar to the specific situation encountered in https://access.redhat.com/solutions/3108771
Environment
- Red Hat Satellite 6.4
- Red Hat Satellite 6.5
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