OK - fixed it myself ;o) I'd downloaded a Fed Core 4 DVD iso (2.7GB) and it was this that the backup crashed on. Removed it and the next "full" completed. Not sure what part of the mechanism failed here as perl on both hosts is compiled with largefiles.
Damian Damian OHara wrote: >Strange behaviour .... > >I'm backing up 4 RedHat clients (rsync over ssh) - 3 remote and 1 >local. All fine for a year and then this week the local client backups >start failing. > >Here's an extract from the backuppc log ... > >2005-11-26 22:00:06 full backup started for directory /; updating partial 293 >2005-11-27 18:58:28 Aborting backup up after signal ALRM >2005-11-27 18:58:54 Saved partial dump 293 >2005-11-27 19:08:52 full backup started for directory /; updating partial 293 >2005-11-27 20:18:44 Got fatal error during xfer (Child exited prematurely) >2005-11-27 20:18:50 Backup aborted (Child exited prematurely) >2005-11-27 20:18:56 Saved partial dump 293 >2005-11-27 21:00:12 full backup started for directory /; updating partial 293 >2005-11-28 18:02:15 Aborting backup up after signal ALRM >2005-11-28 18:02:40 Saved partial dump 293 >2005-11-28 20:00:08 full backup started for directory /; updating partial 293 >2005-11-28 21:44:06 Got fatal error during xfer (Child exited prematurely) >2005-11-28 21:44:13 Backup aborted (Child exited prematurely) >2005-11-28 21:44:32 Saved partial dump 293 >2005-11-28 22:00:21 full backup started for directory /; updating partial 293 >2005-11-29 19:13:03 Aborting backup up after signal ALRM >2005-11-29 19:13:30 Saved partial dump 293 >2005-11-29 20:00:07 full backup started for directory /; updating partial 293 >2005-11-29 21:10:01 Aborting backup up after signal INT >2005-11-29 21:10:05 Got fatal error during xfer (aborted by user (signal=INT)) >2005-11-29 21:10:06 Saved partial dump 293 >2005-11-29 21:25:19 full backup started for directory /; updating partial 293 >2005-11-29 22:07:57 Got fatal error during xfer (Child exited prematurely) >2005-11-29 22:08:02 Backup aborted (Child exited prematurely) >2005-11-29 22:08:06 Saved partial dump 293 >2005-11-29 23:32:45 full backup started for directory /; updating partial 293 >2005-11-29 23:32:46 Got fatal error during xfer (Unable to read 4 bytes) >2005-11-29 23:32:51 Backup aborted (Unable to read 4 bytes) >2005-11-29 23:44:00 incr backup started back to 2005-11-18 19:00:02 for >directory / >2005-11-29 23:44:01 Got fatal error during xfer (Unable to read 4 bytes) >2005-11-29 23:44:06 Backup aborted (Unable to read 4 bytes) >2005-11-29 23:48:25 full backup started for directory /; updating partial 293 >2005-11-29 23:48:26 Got fatal error during xfer (Unable to read 4 bytes) >2005-11-29 23:48:31 Backup aborted (Unable to read 4 bytes) > >As you can see it runs for quite a while but then bangs out. > >At a loss to explain this. > >Backup server info: >SME Server 6.01 (RedHat 7.3) >smeserver-backuppc-2.1.0-1 >failing backup: rsync over ssh >RAID1 160GB >512MB RAM >Other info: > > * Pool is 55.27GB comprising 308155 files and 4369 directories (as > of 11/29 19:24), > * Pool hashing gives 63 repeated files with longest chain 8, > * Nightly cleanup removed 1117 files of size 0.01GB (around 11/29 > 19:24), > * Pool file system was recently at 42% (11/29 23:32), today's max is > 42% (11/29 22:00) and yesterday's max was 42%. > >Client info: >SME Server 6.01 (RedHat 7.3) >RAID1 60GB >512MB RAM > >Pointers on where to look ? Obviously "ssh remoteclient ls" as user >backuppc works fine. > >Regards, > >Damian > > >------------------------------------------------------- >This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Do you grep through log files >for problems? Stop! Download the new AJAX search engine that makes >searching your log files as easy as surfing the web. DOWNLOAD SPLUNK! >http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=7637&alloc_id=16865&op=click >_______________________________________________ >BackupPC-users mailing list >[email protected] >https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users >http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/ > ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Do you grep through log files for problems? Stop! Download the new AJAX search engine that makes searching your log files as easy as surfing the web. DOWNLOAD SPLUNK! http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=7637&alloc_id=16865&op=click _______________________________________________ BackupPC-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/
