Today I had an exception in my logs for Borg backup. 😱
Feb 14 09:16:12 melanobombus systemd[1]: Starting automatic-backup.service...
Feb 14 09:16:17 melanobombus run.sh[9191]: Disk bb1c034e-dd21-48e7-a496-1b95685a094d is a backup disk
Feb 14 09:16:17 melanobombus run.sh[9191]: /dev/sdb1 on /mnt/backup type ext4 (rw,nosuid,nodev,relatime,x-gvfs-show)
Feb 14 09:16:17 melanobombus run.sh[9191]: Drive path: /dev/sdb1
Feb 14 09:16:17 melanobombus run.sh[9191]: borgbackup version 1.1.9
Feb 14 09:39:36 melanobombus run.sh[9191]: Exception ignored in: <function Repository.__del__ at 0x7f4254351d90>
Feb 14 09:39:36 melanobombus run.sh[9191]: Traceback (most recent call last):
Feb 14 09:39:36 melanobombus run.sh[9191]: File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/borg/repository.py", line 178, in __del__
Feb 14 09:39:36 melanobombus run.sh[9191]: self.close()
Feb 14 09:39:36 melanobombus run.sh[9191]: File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/borg/repository.py", line 427, in close
Feb 14 09:39:36 melanobombus run.sh[9191]: self.lock.release()
Feb 14 09:39:36 melanobombus run.sh[9191]: File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/borg/locking.py", line 383, in release
Feb 14 09:39:36 melanobombus run.sh[9191]: self._roster.modify(EXCLUSIVE, REMOVE)
Feb 14 09:39:36 melanobombus run.sh[9191]: File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/borg/locking.py", line 282, in modify
Feb 14 09:39:36 melanobombus run.sh[9191]: elements.remove(self.id)
Feb 14 09:39:36 melanobombus run.sh[9191]: KeyError: (('melanobombus@27278930346555', 9230, 0),)
Feb 14 09:39:36 melanobombus run.sh[9191]: Local Exception
Feb 14 09:39:36 melanobombus run.sh[9191]: Traceback (most recent call last):
Feb 14 09:39:36 melanobombus run.sh[9191]: File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/borg/archiver.py", line 154, in wrapper
Feb 14 09:39:36 melanobombus run.sh[9191]: return method(self, args, repository=repository, **kwargs)
Feb 14 09:39:36 melanobombus run.sh[9191]: File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/borg/archiver.py", line 557, in do_create
Feb 14 09:39:36 melanobombus run.sh[9191]: create_inner(archive, cache)
Feb 14 09:39:36 melanobombus run.sh[9191]: File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/borg/archiver.py", line 520, in create_inner
Feb 14 09:39:36 melanobombus run.sh[9191]: read_special=args.read_special, dry_run=dry_run, st=st)
Feb 14 09:39:36 melanobombus run.sh[9191]: File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/borg/archiver.py", line 634, in _process
Feb 14 09:39:36 melanobombus run.sh[9191]: read_special=read_special, dry_run=dry_run)
Feb 14 09:39:36 melanobombus run.sh[9191]: File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/borg/archiver.py", line 634, in _process
Feb 14 09:39:36 melanobombus run.sh[9191]: read_special=read_special, dry_run=dry_run)
Feb 14 09:39:36 melanobombus run.sh[9191]: File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/borg/archiver.py", line 634, in _process
Feb 14 09:39:36 melanobombus run.sh[9191]: read_special=read_special, dry_run=dry_run)
Feb 14 09:39:36 melanobombus run.sh[9191]: [Previous line repeated 3 more times]
Feb 14 09:39:36 melanobombus run.sh[9191]: File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/borg/archiver.py", line 608, in _process
Feb 14 09:39:36 melanobombus run.sh[9191]: status = archive.process_file(path, st, cache)
Feb 14 09:39:36 melanobombus run.sh[9191]: File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/borg/archive.py", line 1034, in process_file
Feb 14 09:39:36 melanobombus run.sh[9191]: self.chunk_file(item, cache, self.stats, backup_io_iter(self.chunker.chunkify(fd, fh)))
Feb 14 09:39:36 melanobombus run.sh[9191]: File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/borg/archive.py", line 962, in chunk_file
Feb 14 09:39:36 melanobombus run.sh[9191]: item.chunks.append(chunk_processor(data))
Feb 14 09:39:36 melanobombus run.sh[9191]: File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/borg/archive.py", line 950, in chunk_processor
Feb 14 09:39:36 melanobombus run.sh[9191]: chunk_entry = cache.add_chunk(self.key.id_hash(data), data, stats, wait=False)
Feb 14 09:39:36 melanobombus run.sh[9191]: File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/borg/cache.py", line 899, in add_chunk
Feb 14 09:39:36 melanobombus run.sh[9191]: self.repository.put(id, data, wait=wait)
Feb 14 09:39:36 melanobombus run.sh[9191]: File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/borg/repository.py", line 1101, in put
Feb 14 09:39:36 melanobombus run.sh[9191]: segment, offset = self.io.write_put(id, data)
Feb 14 09:39:36 melanobombus run.sh[9191]: File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/borg/repository.py", line 1482, in write_put
Feb 14 09:39:36 melanobombus run.sh[9191]: fd.write(b''.join((crc, header, id, data)))
Feb 14 09:39:36 melanobombus run.sh[9191]: File "src/borg/platform/linux.pyx", line 283, in borg.platform.linux.SyncFile.write
Feb 14 09:39:36 melanobombus run.sh[9191]: File "src/borg/platform/linux.pyx", line 236, in borg.platform.linux._sync_file_range
Feb 14 09:39:36 melanobombus run.sh[9191]: OSError: [Errno 5] Input/output error
Feb 14 09:39:36 melanobombus run.sh[9191]: During handling of the above exception, another exception occurred:
Feb 14 09:39:36 melanobombus run.sh[9191]: Traceback (most recent call last):
Feb 14 09:39:36 melanobombus run.sh[9191]: File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/borg/platform/base.py", line 136, in close
Feb 14 09:39:36 melanobombus run.sh[9191]: self.sync()
Feb 14 09:39:36 melanobombus run.sh[9191]: File "src/borg/platform/linux.pyx", line 292, in borg.platform.linux.SyncFile.sync
Feb 14 09:39:36 melanobombus run.sh[9191]: OSError: [Errno 5] Input/output error
Feb 14 09:39:36 melanobombus run.sh[9191]: During handling of the above exception, another exception occurred:
Feb 14 09:39:36 melanobombus run.sh[9191]: Traceback (most recent call last):
Feb 14 09:39:36 melanobombus run.sh[9191]: File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/borg/archiver.py", line 4455, in main
Feb 14 09:39:36 melanobombus run.sh[9191]: exit_code = archiver.run(args)
Feb 14 09:39:36 melanobombus run.sh[9191]: File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/borg/archiver.py", line 4387, in run
Feb 14 09:39:36 melanobombus run.sh[9191]: return set_ec(func(args))
Feb 14 09:39:36 melanobombus run.sh[9191]: File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/borg/archiver.py", line 154, in wrapper
Feb 14 09:39:36 melanobombus run.sh[9191]: return method(self, args, repository=repository, **kwargs)
Feb 14 09:39:36 melanobombus run.sh[9191]: File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/borg/repository.py", line 203, in __exit__
Feb 14 09:39:36 melanobombus run.sh[9191]: self.close()
Feb 14 09:39:36 melanobombus run.sh[9191]: File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/borg/repository.py", line 425, in close
Feb 14 09:39:36 melanobombus run.sh[9191]: self.io.close()
Feb 14 09:39:36 melanobombus run.sh[9191]: File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/borg/repository.py", line 1176, in close
Feb 14 09:39:36 melanobombus run.sh[9191]: self.close_segment()
Feb 14 09:39:36 melanobombus run.sh[9191]: File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/borg/repository.py", line 1307, in close_segment
Feb 14 09:39:36 melanobombus run.sh[9191]: fd.close()
Feb 14 09:39:36 melanobombus run.sh[9191]: File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/borg/platform/base.py", line 140, in close
Feb 14 09:39:36 melanobombus run.sh[9191]: platform.sync_dir(dirname)
Feb 14 09:39:36 melanobombus run.sh[9191]: File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/borg/platform/base.py", line 58, in sync_dir
Feb 14 09:39:36 melanobombus run.sh[9191]: fd = os.open(path, os.O_RDONLY)
Feb 14 09:39:36 melanobombus run.sh[9191]: FileNotFoundError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: '/mnt/backup/borg-backups/backup.borg/data/1'
Feb 14 09:39:36 melanobombus run.sh[9191]: Platform: Linux melanobombus 4.19.0-14-amd64 #1 SMP Debian 4.19.171-2 (2021-01-30) x86_64
Feb 14 09:39:36 melanobombus run.sh[9191]: Linux: PureOS 9 amber
Feb 14 09:39:36 melanobombus run.sh[9191]: Borg: 1.1.9 Python: CPython 3.7.3
Feb 14 09:39:36 melanobombus run.sh[9191]: PID: 9230 CWD: /
Feb 14 09:39:36 melanobombus run.sh[9191]: sys.argv: ['/usr/bin/borg', 'create', '--stats', '--one-file-system', '--compression', 'lz4', '--show-version', '--exclude', '/root/.cache', '--exclude', '/var/cache', '/mnt/backup/borg-backups/backup.borg::{utcnow}-{hostname}', '/']
Feb 14 09:39:36 melanobombus run.sh[9191]: SSH_ORIGINAL_COMMAND: None
Feb 14 09:39:36 melanobombus systemd[1]: automatic-backup.service: Main process exited, code=exited, status=2/INVALIDARGUMENT
Feb 14 09:39:36 melanobombus systemd[1]: automatic-backup.service: Failed with result 'exit-code'.
Feb 14 09:39:36 melanobombus systemd[1]: Failed to start automatic-backup.service.
Feb 14 09:39:36 melanobombus systemd[1]: Starting automatic-backup.service...
Feb 14 09:39:41 melanobombus run.sh[9897]: Disk bb1c034e-dd21-48e7-a496-1b95685a094d is a backup disk
Feb 14 09:39:41 melanobombus run.sh[9897]: /dev/sdb1 on /mnt/backup type ext4 (rw,nosuid,nodev,relatime,x-gvfs-show)
Feb 14 09:39:41 melanobombus run.sh[9897]: Drive path: /dev/sdb1
Feb 14 09:39:42 melanobombus run.sh[9897]: borgbackup version 1.1.9
Feb 14 09:39:42 melanobombus run.sh[9897]: Killed stale lock melanobombus@27278930346555.9230-0.
Feb 14 09:39:42 melanobombus run.sh[9897]: Removed stale exclusive roster lock for host melanobombus@27278930346555 pid 9230 thread 0.
Feb 14 09:39:42 melanobombus run.sh[9897]: Removed stale exclusive roster lock for host melanobombus@27278930346555 pid 9230 thread 0.
Looks like it’s running again. But still. How disconerting.
Did it unmount itself by accident? The missing directory is back, in any case:
$ sudo ls /mnt/backup/borg-backups/backup.borg/data/1
1000 1013 1026 1039 1052 1065 1081 1094 1107 1120 1133 1146 1159 1175
1001 1014 1027 1040 1053 1066 1082 1095 1108 1121 1134 1147 1160 1176
1002 1015 1028 1041 1054 1068 1083 1096 1109 1122 1135 1148 1161 1177
1003 1016 1029 1042 1055 1070 1084 1097 1110 1123 1136 1149 1162 1178
1004 1017 1030 1043 1056 1072 1085 1098 1111 1124 1137 1150 1163 1179
1005 1018 1031 1044 1057 1073 1086 1099 1112 1125 1138 1151 1165 1180
1006 1019 1032 1045 1058 1074 1087 1100 1113 1126 1139 1152 1166 1181
1007 1020 1033 1046 1059 1075 1088 1101 1114 1127 1140 1153 1167 1182
1008 1021 1034 1047 1060 1076 1089 1102 1115 1128 1141 1154 1168 1183
1009 1022 1035 1048 1061 1077 1090 1103 1116 1129 1142 1155 1169 1184
1010 1023 1036 1049 1062 1078 1091 1104 1117 1130 1143 1156 1171 1185
1011 1024 1037 1050 1063 1079 1092 1105 1118 1131 1144 1157 1173 1186
1012 1025 1038 1051 1064 1080 1093 1106 1119 1132 1145 1158 1174 1187
Well, it seems to have worked now, so let’s hope this doesn’t happen again. 😰
Feb 14 09:39:36 melanobombus systemd[1]: Starting automatic-backup.service...
Feb 14 09:39:41 melanobombus run.sh[9897]: Disk bb1c034e-dd21-48e7-a496-1b95685a094d is a backup disk
Feb 14 09:39:41 melanobombus run.sh[9897]: /dev/sdb1 on /mnt/backup type ext4 (rw,nosuid,nodev,relatime,x-gvfs-show)
Feb 14 09:39:41 melanobombus run.sh[9897]: Drive path: /dev/sdb1
Feb 14 09:39:42 melanobombus run.sh[9897]: borgbackup version 1.1.9
Feb 14 09:39:42 melanobombus run.sh[9897]: Killed stale lock melanobombus@27278930346555.9230-0.
Feb 14 09:39:42 melanobombus run.sh[9897]: Removed stale exclusive roster lock for host melanobombus@27278930346555 pid 9230 thread 0.
Feb 14 09:39:42 melanobombus run.sh[9897]: Removed stale exclusive roster lock for host melanobombus@27278930346555 pid 9230 thread 0.
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#Backup #Borg
I actually agree with the broader thrust of the essay, that understanding – a model of the world and not just a model of language – is necessary for useful intelligence. However, the quote you pulled is kind of self-congratulatory to centrists. You can find exactly the same kind of repetitive, stereotyped discourse in self-identified centrist communities. Look at Reddit’s /r/neoliberal for a good example, or anyone with a KHive pfp on Twitter. I’d suggest that the real trigger for this behavior or pattern of thought is a reliance on short-form writing rather than long-form, though I may have an incomplete picture.
– GCU Prosthetic Conscience 2021-02-17 13:33 UTC
I think it reflects pretty well on how Switzerland is dealing with the pandemic, for example. Or how the right wing in Switzerland deals with foreigners. To me, so many things are clearly wrong: a sentence or two are correct, the next is a gross simplification, then a feel good ur-fascist statement, then something that contradicts what was said before but is offered as a counter argument to what I just said, then a distraction, something designed to feel good, something reusing the words we used to teach each other how to be scientists, like research, facts, or metaphors like safety regulations for cars, reused, repurposed for their exact opposite, in a free wheeling circle of association.
I’m not sure where the centrists come in, and I don’t feel like delving into Reddit, specially not with that subreddit name, and certainly not when you tell me that what I’m going to find there is all wrong. That’s a waste of time.
I don’t know what “a KHive pfp on Twitter” is. Something about fake follower counts?
In any case, I’m not sure that the way the Swiss government is reacting to the pandemic is a consequence of how Twitter has shaped our writing, but rather that we’re seeing an age old mechanism at work, exploited on a different medium, but not different from the use of Radio by the Nazis, or the printing press by the reformation. Any kind of unhappiness, exploited, via the inability of the public to form a coherent position.
I think to argue that a reliance on short-form writing might be involved is not enough, as the common denominator of all simple messaging is shortness of the messages themselves. But there is more to it, I think.
– Alex 2021-02-17 13:55 UTC
I see Sandra also wrote a blog post, Re: The Thoughts The Civilized Keep. 😄
– Alex 2021-02-17 17:31 UTC
As well you shouldn’t. Centrists enter into it because the quote describes this kind of language as typical of “extremist” communities. But that subreddit is an example of that kind of circular/incoherent discourse in a “centrist” community – the name of the subreddit is unironic. The KHive are described here: https://www.huffpost.com/entry/kamala-harris-khive-toxic-side_n_5f4fa573c5b69eb5c037473e; they are often distinguished by a gold ring around their pfp (avatar). If you don’t want to look into it, the upshot is that they are vicious Twitter trolls who stan a centrist politician.
I think you’re right about simple messaging being the core, rather than short-form reading (social media) as such. But social media means people see much more simple messaging than ever before.
– GCU Prosthetic Conscience 2021-02-17 20:01 UTC
I don’t like being part of a dogpile of criticism against any one particular writer, it easily gets redundant. I can’t in all honesty wash my hands of it, just own up to it. I shoulda held off on the essay and polished it so it was less about Vallor’s text and more about my own hangups around AI and AIP.
– Sandra 2021-02-17 23:43 UTC
I miss when neoliberals and randroids where the enemy, they were more fun to talk to than climate deniers and social conservatives (including racists and sexists).
– Sandra 2021-02-17 23:46 UTC
Re the bad KHivers I remember in 2016 (and I do think that Bernie was the best candidate in ’16) talking to some people who were saying there where no toxic Bernie Bros. Wait, that sounds like I’m saying they were “no true Scotsman”-ing the toxic members. That’s not quite right. Instead they denied the harassment outright. “That’s not true, that never happened, that’s just propaganda.” I’d see the harassment with my own eyes and the denial with my own eyes.
Now, this was in YouTube’s comment section so false flag on one or both of those seemingly contradictory things certainly possible, but, that’d leave us with the no true Scotsman again. The harassments happened (as in often) and made the Bernie faction a difficult place to be around.
– Sandra 2021-02-17 23:56 UTC
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