**As I was writing this, I was combing over the client logs and
found a common denominator:
Feb 7 03:14:59 Monster cp: error processing extended
attributes: Operation not permitted
This error is seen on every client. I then remembered I added
the -E (--extended-attributes) switch to my default rsync config since
all my clients are OSX machines and are all Tiger or above.
So, now I know the specific cause. But would anyone have an idea
on why the switch to backup extended-attributes is causing an error
when backing up extended attributes?
I will leave the below explanation as a reference for anyone
experiencing the same problems:
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I noted that backups were taking a a pretty long time to complete. In
addition, several are exiting out with the error:
Aborting backup up after signal ALRM
My understanding of this error is that it is normally due to a
timeout event.
However, I'm not clear on how to track down exactly what is
causing this timeout event.
Looking at my usage logs, my server cpu's are being maxed out
during these backup periods (dual 2.6ghz xserve), but bandwidth is
negligable.
Here are some of the numbers I'm seeing:
client1
Initial
full backup: ~60gb in 3.15 hours
Current
backup: Start time was last night at 10pm (20:00). Still going as of
8am this morning.
Will
probably error out with signal ALRM
client2
Initial
full backup: ~41m 20gb
Current
backup: incr started at 2am this morning still going at 8:30am
I think the trend is clear. I assume *something* has changed
since initial setup that is causing this error, but as I mentioned
before I'm not getting anything informative out of my log files that
could help point the way.
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