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English => Feature requests => Topic started by: michelinok on December 05, 2010, 04:50:45 PM

Title: .met auto backup
Post by: michelinok on December 05, 2010, 04:50:45 PM

Hi, it would be great if amule could do a backup of the .met file each time a file is added.
I've encoured the problem that is the machine running amule hang and/or cannot save the partfiles, sometimes the .met file is totally corrupted (zero bytes).

What do you think of this feature?  :D

Title: Re: .met auto backup
Post by: Stu Redman on December 05, 2010, 05:02:26 PM

The met files are already backed up.

Title: Re: .met auto backup
Post by: michelinok on December 05, 2010, 08:53:23 PM

Quote from: Stu Redman on December 05, 2010, 05:02:26 PM

The met files are already backed up.

Maybe i'm missing something...but i've lost 6 downloads (on 120) due to a crsh..and the met and met.bak become zero bytes...dunno why  :'(
ATM i'm backing up .met manually once a day

Title: Re: .met auto backup
Post by: Stu Redman on December 05, 2010, 11:30:58 PM

Sounds like a problem with your file system.

Title: Re: .met auto backup
Post by: Kry on December 06, 2010, 02:58:49 AM

Ohboy. Here we go again.

Title: Re: .met auto backup
Post by: Stu Redman on December 06, 2010, 10:31:57 PM

You mean like last time, with the dude who spoke to "computer experts" ?  ;D

Title: Re: .met auto backup
Post by: Gerd78 on December 07, 2010, 03:39:20 AM

@Stu Redman, it was about "professional programmers" (http://forum.amule.org/index.php?topic=17007.msg91213#msg91213), not "computer experts".

@michelinok, which filesystem and kernel version do you have? If you're using ext4, upgrade your kernel to at least 2.6.30. If you can't upgrade your kernel or it is already 2.6.30 or later and you still see this problem, you might want to try the "nodelalloc" mount option.