On Thu, Jun 9, 2016 at 12:43 PM, Carl Wilhelm Soderstrom <chr...@real-time.com> wrote: > I have seen it happen on a couple of occasions where a Windows machine > (backed up via Cygwin rsyncd, not the minimal rsyncd off the SF page) will > suddenly stop working for incremental backups. Full backups will continue to > work, but incrementals will start failing with a PIPE error. For example, > here's a run where I was trying to debug with > '/usr/share/backuppc/bin/BackupPC_dump -i -v host.example.com': > > create d 770 544/1049089 0 Program Files (x86)/Common > Files/Adobe/AAMUpdaterInventory/1.0/AdobeIDCC2015AppLangen_US-11.0 > create d 770 544/1049089 0 Program Files (x86)/Common > Files/Adobe/AAMUpdaterInventory/1.0/AdobeIDCC2015AppLangen_US-11.0/11.2.0.100 > Done: 0 files, 0 bytes > Got fatal error during xfer (aborted by signal=PIPE) > Backup aborted by user signal > dump failed: aborted by signal=PIPE
Sometimes this is caused by a nat router or stateful firewall (possibly even host firewall software) timing out and breaking a connection due to too much idle time in the traffic. If you are running over ssh you can usually fix it by enabling keepalives - not sure about the standalone rsyncd options. -- Les Mikesell lesmikes...@gmail.com ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ What NetFlow Analyzer can do for you? Monitors network bandwidth and traffic patterns at an interface-level. Reveals which users, apps, and protocols are consuming the most bandwidth. Provides multi-vendor support for NetFlow, J-Flow, sFlow and other flows. Make informed decisions using capacity planning reports. https://ad.doubleclick.net/ddm/clk/305295220;132659582;e _______________________________________________ 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/