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scp truncate text file busy - copying file is not a running binary

I am having problems with scp during a backup operation

I added a ps -ef before and after the scp operation used during the backup.

The backup is a script to backup a Zimbra Server

I am including the code segment that I am having problems

Code:

        # DRCP Section. To scp newly created archives to a remote system

        if [ "$DRCP" = "yes" ]

        then

          echo ""

            ps -ef

          echo ""

            CPNAME=`ls -A "$ARCHIVENAME"*`

            SCPRC=0

            echo "copy archive to $REMOTEHOST" remote directory $REMOTEDIR

            if [ "$SSHKEY" = "rsa" ]

            then

                  scp -i /root/.ssh/id_rsa $CPNAME "$SSHUSER"@"$REMOTEHOST":"$REMOTEDIR"

                  SCPRC=$?

            elif [ "$SSHKEY" = "dsa" ]

            then

                  scp -i /root/.ssh/id_dsa $CPNAME "$SSHUSER"@"$REMOTEHOST":"$REMOTEDIR"

                  SCPRC=$?

            elif [ "$SSHKEY" = "rsa1" ]

            then

                  scp -i /root/.ssh/identity $CPNAME "$SSHUSER"@"$REMOTEHOST":"$REMOTEDIR"

                  SCPRC=$?

            fi

            echo ""

            ps -ef

          echo ""

          if [ "$SCPRC" -ne "0" ]

              then

                    echo "Error copying archive and checksum to $REMOTEHOST"

                    mail_log

                    exit 1

              elif [ $TYPE = "full" ]

              then

                    echo "$ARCHIVENAME"

                    echo "ssh $SSHUSER@$REMOTEHOST" "rm -f $REMOTEDIR/$LAST_FULL_WEEK_$BACKUPNAME*"

                    ssh "$SSHUSER"@"$REMOTEHOST" rm -f "$REMOTEDIR"/"$LAST_FULL_WEEK"_"$BACKUPNAME"*

            fi    

        fi

I am including the log that is sent during the backup by email as attachment since is too long

How can I see which process is locking the file that is being truncated?

Try lsof it shows open files.

I will replace ps -ef

Quote:

Originally Posted by rweaver (Post 4003427)

Try lsof it shows open files.

Thank you for your promptly response.

I will replace the ps -ef line with lsof in the code.

This script backup runs only on Saturdays, and do not have a test system that could replicate the problem sooner.
I will make the change on the code today, but I have to wait until Monday to see the outcome.

So I will have to post again in this thread next week. Sorry for the delay.

I change ps -ef by lsof and this is what I got

After changing the ps -ef line to lsof I did not see why the scp reports Text File busy.

I am including the new email outcome as attachment

The attachments do not accept file larger that 256KB, but the email is 1MB large so I zipped the file.

Zip is not a permitted extension so I appended a .txt to the file name

I think the problem is some kind of timeout of the scp command.

It copies successfully various files, among them two of 4GB size, before failing with this file which is a 2~3GB file