Re: [BackupPC-users] WinXP client backup problems

[Paul S. Gumerman]

Craig, Yes, the files and directories are there.  The backups always *partially* run, sometimes for 2 hours, before failing.  I'm also having similar problems (out of space on device) backing up Linux clients. I tried BackupPC a couple of years ago, and was stymied by the XP Home "Basic file sharing".  I've got that taken care of now. Is the RsyncFileIO perl module using bad arithmetic for device space calcs that can't handle multi-TB devices?  Or does it just make the assumption that the problem is lack of space? The array is managed by a 3ware 9500 controller, and I do not have any problems with it, AFAIK.  Other apps seem quite happy to write many GB to it. I have another 900GB array  --- I'm currently copying the entire backuppc directory to it to see if that makes any difference.  I'll let you know if it does. I do have one observation/criticism after spending a lot of time going through the list archives: it seems that the transfer processes for backuppc are overly fragile --- if there is a problem, the whole backup process stops in its tracks, rather than noting the problem and trying like hell to get the rest of the files.  Don't know if anything more could be done to increase the robustness or not, and I'm hardly an expert on backup systems --- so take this with a grain of salt. Paul Craig Barratt wrote: "Paul S. Gumerman" writes: This has been driving me nuts. I'm trying to get going with BackupPC, but no matter what, I always seem to have "Child exited prematurely" failures. Here is a more specific error message: 2005-10-10 15:29:57 bethnote2 <http://geordie.cooldog.com:8080/cgi-bin/BackupPC_Admin?host=bethnote2>: mkdir /raid5/backuppc/pc/bethnote2 <http://geordie.cooldog.com:8080/cgi-bin/BackupPC_Admin?host=bethnote2>/new//fcDrive/fProgram Files/fMozilla Thunderbird/fchrome/foverlayinfo: No space left on device at /usr/local/backuppc/lib/BackupPC/Xfer/RsyncFileIO.pm line 537 2005-10-10 15:30:04 Backup failed on bethnote2 <http://geordie.cooldog.com:8080/cgi-bin/BackupPC_Admin?host=bethnote2> (Child exited prematurely) If this is referring to the device where the backups go, it's hogwash! It's a 2.7TB array that still has almost 1.5TB available. Or does this refer to /tmp ???? If that's the case, is there any way to tell the rsync client to use a different place? The error means that this system call: mkdir /raid5/backuppc/pc/bethnote2/new//fcDrive/fProgram Files/fMozilla Thunderbird/fchrome/foverlayinfo failed. Are you sure that /raid5/backuppc/pc/bethnote2 is on the /raid5 file system? What happens when you run: df -i /raid5/backuppc/pc/bethnote2 Craig ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: Power Architecture Resource Center: Free content, downloads, discussions, and more. http://solutions.newsforge.com/ibmarch.tmpl _______________________________________________ BackupPC-users mailing list BackupPC-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/