Error 38 on Symlink

I just signed up, my apologies if my answer is in this forum somewhere – I did search though.

“Creating symlink at “/mnt/URBackup/Z8350/171108-1931/root/bin/btrfsck” to “root/bin/btrfs” failed. Function not implemented (errorcode=38)”

I am just getting configured to run on my Ubilinux Z8350 box. Had it running but when I tried to use my 64Gb flash I got this message. Running version 2.1.19

Thanks for suggestions how to proceed.

Hi

Would it be that you try to backup to a usb key and the key os formated in fat32 ?
If so, format it using ext4

Fantastic! Thanks a million orogor! For some reason SDFormatter wouldn’t format my Sandisk Extreme 3.0 in Ext4 which was the problem. After finally getting it formatted in EXT4, everything worked. BTW, I don’t know what a “USB key” is. I’ll be doing some Googling to determine what I need to know about it.

Maybe I spoke too soon, though it appears the backup was successful. These are the messages in the log file:

Level Time Message
Info

11/09/17 14:15
Starting unscheduled full file backup…
Info

11/09/17 14:16
Backing up “root” without snapshot.
Info

11/09/17 14:16
Indexing of “root” done. 63253 filesystem lookups 0 db lookups and 0 db updates
Info

11/09/17 14:16
Z8350: Loading file list…
Info

11/09/17 14:16
Z8350: Started loading files…
Info

11/09/17 14:16
Referencing snapshot on “Z8350” for path “root” failed: FAILED
Warnings

11/09/17 14:16
HT: Error creating hardlink from “/mnt/URBackup/Z8350/171108-1931/root/urbackup-client-2.1.16.tar.gz” to “/mnt/UrBackup/Z8350/171109-1415/root/urbackup-client-2.1.16.tar.gz”
Warnings

11/09/17 14:16
HT: Error creating hardlink from “/mnt/URBackup/Z8350/171108-1931/root/urbackup-server-2.1.19.tar.gz” to “/mnt/UrBackup/Z8350/171109-1415/root/urbackup-server-2.1.19.tar.gz”
Warnings

11/09/17 14:16
HT: Error creating hardlink from “/mnt/URBackup/Z8350/171108-1931/root/urbackup-server_2.1.19_amd64.deb” to “/mnt/UrBackup/Z8350/171109-1415/root/urbackup-server_2.1.19_amd64.deb”
Warnings

11/09/17 14:16
HT: Error creating hardlink from “/mnt/URBackup/Z8350/171108-1931/root/bin/bash” to “/mnt/UrBackup/Z8350/171109-1415/root/bin/bash”
Warnings

11/09/17 14:16
HT: Error creating hardlink from “/mnt/URBackup/Z8350/171108-1931/root/bin/btrfs” to “/mnt/UrBackup/Z8350/171109-1415/root/bin/btrfs”
Warnings

11/09/17 14:16
HT: More hardlink errors. Skipping…
Warnings

11/09/17 14:38
HT: Error creating hardlink from “/urbackups/urbackup//Z8350/171108-1536/root/usr/bin/411toppm” to “/mnt/UrBackup/Z8350/171109-1415/root/urbackups/urbackup/Z8350/171108-1536/root/usr/bin/411toppm”
Warnings

11/09/17 14:38
HT: Error creating hardlink from “/urbackups/urbackup//Z8350/171108-1536/root/usr/bin/[” to “/mnt/UrBackup/Z8350/171109-1415/root/urbackups/urbackup/Z8350/171108-1536/root/usr/bin/[”
Warnings

11/09/17 14:38
HT: Error creating hardlink from “/urbackups/urbackup//Z8350/171108-1536/root/usr/bin/aconnect” to “/mnt/UrBackup/Z8350/171109-1415/root/urbackups/urbackup/Z8350/171108-1536/root/usr/bin/aconnect”
Warnings

11/09/17 14:38
HT: Error creating hardlink from “/urbackups/urbackup//Z8350/171108-1536/root/usr/bin/acpibin” to “/mnt/UrBackup/Z8350/171109-1415/root/urbackups/urbackup/Z8350/171108-1536/root/usr/bin/acpibin”
Warnings

11/09/17 14:38
HT: Error creating hardlink from “/urbackups/urbackup//Z8350/171108-1536/root/usr/bin/acpidump-acpica” to “/mnt/UrBackup/Z8350/171109-1415/root/urbackups/urbackup/Z8350/171108-1536/root/usr/bin/acpidump-acpica”
Warnings

11/09/17 14:38
HT: More hardlink errors. Skipping…
Warnings

11/09/17 14:46
Error getting complete file “317L4kPU4BjUHgz4PS1W|root/usr/local/var/urbackup/data/filelist_new_0.ub” from Z8350. Errorcode: CANNOT_OPEN_FILE (3)
Info

11/09/17 14:52
Waiting for file transfers…
Info

11/09/17 14:52
Waiting for file hashing and copying threads…
Info

11/09/17 14:52
Saving file metadata…
Warnings

11/09/17 15:05
Not all folder metadata could be applied. Metadata was inconsistent.
Info

11/09/17 15:05
Writing new file list…
Info

11/09/17 15:05
All metadata was present
Info

11/09/17 15:05
Transferred 17.4437 GB - Average speed: 69.4546 MBit/s
Info

11/09/17 15:05
Time taken for backing up client Z8350: 50m 50s
Info

11/09/17 15:05
Backup succeeded

Additional actions which I must do to clear up these issues?

Thanks much.

Hi

Please read usb flash drive instead of usb key
Looks like a general problem not related to the usb flash drive or fs.

I would say, as long as it says successfull at the end … dont think too much about it.
But ultimately, maybe you want to check if you can restore some of the files that did an warning, or inspect them for particularities, like broken mountpoints or whatnot.

Greetings orogor!

Looks like a general problem? Sure appears that way. My unit would not even power up this morning. Kiss $86 goodbye, unless Beelink Official Store on AliExpress sends me a new one, unlikely with a ~7 day warranty period. :frowning: Now to decide what to try next in the Intel micro world…I may just stay with Odroid. I am evaluating various micros as web web servers.

Thanks for your time!

Don