Hi,
Matthias Meyer wrote on 2011-09-24 13:20:48 +0200 [[BackupPC-devel] How to get
Transfer-Counts during backup?]:
> I would like to get actual transfercounts from BackupPC_dump during an
> active running backup.
> I establish a signal handler in BackupPC_dump:
increadibly bad idea.
> $SIG{IO} = \&write_status;
Probably the worst choice possible.
> print( STDERR "Signal IO catched. $newStat->{fileCnt}" );
"Caught".
> and run the process with:
> sux backuppc perl -d:ptkdb /usr/share/backuppc/bin/BackupPC_dump -f athlux
> [...]
> 2) Sometimes the process died with:
> XIO: fatal IO error 11 (Ressource not available) on X server
> "localhost:10.0"
> after 4555 requests (4362 known processed) with 0 events remaining.
> dump failed: Child exited prematurely
>
> X Error of failed request: BadIDChoice (invalid resource ID chosen for this
> connection)
> Major opcode of failed request: 53 (X_CreatePixmap)
> Resource id in failed request: 0x5c00158
> Serial number of failed request: 7559
> Current serial number in output stream: 7729
As you probably should know, BackupPC_dump does not have an X11 interface.
This problem can only be an artefact of your debugging attempts.
> Any Idea/hint from one of the expert perl programmers?
Presuming your priority is the backup *contents* and not statistics about the
*progress*, forget about using a signal handler forever.
I'm not really sure why you're asking this on <backuppc-devel>.
Regards,
Holger
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