backintime ends with error 6144

[Daniel Betschart]

Backintime runs but returns error 6144. Afther that it does the smart remove. All seems to be good, but I ask what is error 6144?

[Daniel Betschart (dbet1)]

Distributor ID: Ubuntu
Description: Ubuntu 12.04.3 LTS
Release: 12.04
Codename: precise

ii backintime-common 1.0.28~precise Simple backup system (common)
ii backintime-gnome 1.0.28~precise Simple backup system for GNOME Desktop
ii backintime-notify 1.0.28~precise Notifications using libnotify for BackInTime

[Germar (germar)]

You've to divide it by 256 (don't ask me why, I've no clue) so you will get rsync return code 24:
> 24 Partial transfer due to vanished source files

One or more files changed before rsync could transfer them. Rsync will transfer them next time again. You can browse the snapshot log to see which files where effected. But normally you don't need to worry about it.

Only if those files is a db (MySQL, Postgres, ...) you should rather exclude the files, create a db dump with custom user-callback script and backup only the dump.