Hi,
Simon K?stlin wrote on 30.04.2007 at 12:25:18 [[BackupPC-users] Tar Backup
aborts (Connection Timed out)]:
> I can see the following error log at the end of this mail created by one
> of my hosts to backup.
yes, I can see it too :-).
> My Timeout is set to $Conf{ClientTimeout} = 576000. Which should be about
> 160h, but the backup aborted already at about 41h.
You're not hit by the timeout (that would be a SIGALRM) but rather by a
network error. 41 hours is quite a long backup run. If you were using rsync,
I'd suggest splitting up your backup by first excluding a large part of it
and gradually reducing the exclude list. That way you'd get shorter backup
times and things would be more likely to complete (or at least wouldn't
restart from scratch). "Millions of files" might or might not make that a
bad idea though.
You won't like the suggestion, but you *could* split the "share" up into
several "shares" to also reduce backup run time ...
> Why is tar aborting?
It does not look like a tar problem but rather like one of the underlying
network. What does the network topology look like? Is there a firewall
between BackupPC server and client host? A DSL link (that gets disconnected
once every 24 hours by your provider, maybe, perhaps)? A flakey switch?
Someone shutting down the client (which happens to be a SuSE system and
therefore shuts down networking before killing processes ...)?
True, the address does not *look* very remote ...
> All other hosts backed up without any problem. It is normal that the
> backup takes so long because there are millions of files to backup.
Does that mean that this host normally works? Or only other similar hosts?
Did it fail just once or repeatedly? What's the exact difference to the
other hosts? Distributions? Kernel versions?
Regards,
Holger
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