Try "$Conf{ClientTimeout} = <big fat number here>;" in your config.pl
file (or in the offending server's configuration file).

On 11/17/05, Ken Long <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I have been trying to get BackupPC implemented on my network and have
> had reasonable success other than with one server.
>
> Unfortunately, this is my primary file server!
>
> Both the BackupPC machine and the file server are running Debian Linux
> (Sarge) and I am using rsync for the backups.  Filesystems on both sides
> are xfs.
>
> What happens is that when I try to back up the entire machine, the
> backup runs a while and then hangs.  It will eventually fail when it
> hits the timeout, but looking at the time stamps on the log files, I can
> see what time it quit doing any thing.  There does not seem to be a
> rhyme or reason to how long it runs (anywhere from 2-4 hours) or where
> it is at in the directory tree when it fails. When I look at the
> contents of the latest XferLOG.z, here is what I see at the end of it:
>
>   pool     670  1090/100        8704
> everyone/V_Reagan/StoreRoom/Mombalan.doc
>   pool     670  1090/100       11264
> everyone/V_Reagan/StoreRoom/Momlocat.doc
>   pool     670  1090/100       13312 everyone/V_Reagan/StoreRoom/Momm
>
>
> Notice that it chops the name of the file in the last line and then just
> quits updating anything.
>
> rsync is still running on the client, but not producing anything.
>
> I tried running a strace on rsync and here is what I saw:
>
> )  = 0 (Timeout)
> select(1, [0], [], NULL, {60, 0}
>
> (I've never used strace before, so don't really know what that means,
> but I saw where someone suggest to run it for someone else.)
>
> The partition that it hangs on is my /datadrive partition and here is
> the stats on it:
>
> /dev/sda3            581506104 336361120 245144984  58% /datadrive
>
> So, I am using about 336GB out of 581GB available.
> Underneath /datadrive, I have the following directories that I am
> backing up:
>
> home
> public
> shared
> www
>
> If I select /datadrive to backup in my client.pl file, it will hang.
> If I select /datadrive and exclude a little, small directory from
> underneath shared (holds about 3GB), it will succeed.  (note that the
> file in XferLog.z above that it stopped on is NOT in the directory that
> I exclude when I do this)
> Thinking size issues, I have, of course, increased the timeout, but that
> hasn't helped.  (besides that, it hangs long before it would ever time
> out)
> I also tried splitting things up and defining backups for
> '/datadrive/home', '/datadrive/www', '/datadrive/public', and
> '/datadrive/shared'.  Thinking that would split things up and make the
> file list smaller for the files being copied.  It still hangs
> on /datadrive/shared.
>
> Does anyone have any ideas what might be happening here?
>
> Any help is greatly appreciated!!!
>
> -Ken
>
>
>
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