On Thu, Feb 12, 2009 at 05:44:33PM +0100, Matthias Meyer wrote: > Sometimes my backups abort with different failures. > Anybody know the meaning of/reason for the following failures? > 1) Aborting backup up after signal ALRM
The backup is taking longer than your $Conf{ClientTimeout} setting. Once you hit $Conf{ClientTimeout} seconds a sigalarm is sent to the process, which causes it to exit. > 2) Backup aborted (Child exited prematurely) Could be a number of things. IIRC this also shows up when it fails during the initial startup. If you also see a message similar to "can't transfer 4 bytes" and you are using the ssh transport mechanism there is something causing bogus output in the .login or other startup files for the shell (or ssh config files). > 3) Aborting backup up after signal INT Usully I see this when I stop the backup using the web interface. > 4) Aborting backup up after signal PIPE I see this as well, not sure what the cause is. Something failed in the interprocess communication between the processes backuppc spawns. What failed who knows. -- -- rouilj John Rouillard System Administrator Renesys Corporation 603-244-9084 (cell) 603-643-9300 x 111 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ BackupPC-users mailing list BackupPC-users@lists.sourceforge.net List: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users Wiki: http://backuppc.wiki.sourceforge.net Project: http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/