[SOLVED] Method mirror has died unexpectedly!

[mk01]

(29th May, 2013 06:13 AM)effemmeffe Wrote:  solved: it was a cronjob that tries to write a full sd backup on a network share. if the network is not available the cronjob creates the file on a directory with the same name of the mountpint, then when the network share is available again the file is hidden.

do a test before you do the backup. you can test for mountpoint existence like this:

mountpoint -q /path/to/network_mount || { echo "network not available"; exit 1; }

this way the script will exit without trying to backups if the network share is not mounted.

( ... nicer output "du -xhd1 /" -x will not descent into different filesystem (mount), -h human readable numbers (G/M/K), -d deepness level)