Unable to Stat File /var/opt/dce/rpc/local ...

[Joanne Joki]

this error appears on our br_backup ... what are these files and can we instruct the backup to skip them?

[Pedro Sousa]

Hi!
These are probably temporary files.
from the doc http://europe-support.external.hp.com/cki/bin/doc.pl/sid=b329b5540f255dc468/screen=ckiDisplayDocument?docId=200000050964233:
"When fbackup is started it scans the directories given in the include and
exclude lists to build an index of the files it has to backup. Once this is
done the index is written to the output device and then the actual backup of
the files starts.

Thus there can be a significant amount of time between the moment fbackup marks
a file for backup and the moment it actually tries to write this file to the
output media. If the file has been deleted in the mean time, fbackup will issue
the above warning."

So, these messages don't mean anything important.