From 955fab929af53b7f9c0c9ea58347af55719a8b50 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Michael Stanclift Date: Mon, 5 Apr 2021 17:22:44 -0500 Subject: [PATCH] Updated Troubleshooting (markdown) --- Troubleshooting.md | 8 +++++++- 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/Troubleshooting.md b/Troubleshooting.md index dd110f3..5df1625 100644 --- a/Troubleshooting.md +++ b/Troubleshooting.md @@ -17,4 +17,10 @@ If you get the error `sudo: a terminal is required to read the password` or `sud ### unrecognized option: preserve-status -Some minimalist Linux distributions (such as Alpine Linux) use an older version of Busybox, which misses the `--preserve-status` option on the `timeout` command. You can either update to a newer version of Busybox, or you can install the `coreutils` package in Alpine Linux, which includes a version of `timeout` which has `--preserve-status` implemented. \ No newline at end of file +Some minimalist Linux distributions (such as Alpine Linux) use an older version of Busybox, which misses the `--preserve-status` option on the `timeout` command. You can either update to a newer version of Busybox, or you can install the `coreutils` package in Alpine Linux, which includes a version of `timeout` which has `--preserve-status` implemented. + +### Database disk image is malformed + +This error has been observed mostly when Gravity Sync is running on slower SD Cards or older Raspberry Pi systems, and where the backup of the running Domain Database takes longer than expected (or never finishes) and thus when Gravity Sync replicates that copy to the secondary, it's malformed. + +The suggested operation is to move at least the primary (or both) of the Pi-hole installations to a storage device with more available IOPS, the alternative is to increase the timeout of the backup process from the default (60 seconds) as documented in [Hidden Figures](https://github.com/vmstan/gravity-sync/wiki/Hidden-Figures#backup_timeout). \ No newline at end of file