I found the problem. I was using sudo, and I had misconfigured my /etc/sudoers file on the host. This resulted in a sort of deadlock with no errors. I assume the host was waiting for user input, which BackupPC of course could not provide, so it just sat there waiting.
-Rob Rob Owens wrote: > I have 2 machines on a LAN, backing each other up. (I'm trying to get > my first full backup before moving one machine off site). > > One of the machines is taking hours, even days, to receive about 16 GB > of backups. It's an older machine w/ IDE drives, but top reports only > about 50% cpu usage. It's a 2.0 Celeron w/ 512 MB PC133 RAM, > /var/lib/backuppc is symlinked to a directory on an IDE hard drive, > which is the slave on the primary IDE channel. > > Any ideas what I should look for in the logs to figure out what is > causing this unusual slowness? By the way, the same machine sends its > files at a reasonable speed. > > -Rob > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. > Still grepping through log files to find problems? Stop. > Now Search log events and configuration files using AJAX and a browser. > Download your FREE copy of Splunk now >> http://get.splunk.com/ > _______________________________________________ > 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. Still grepping through log files to find problems? Stop. Now Search log events and configuration files using AJAX and a browser. Download your FREE copy of Splunk now >> http://get.splunk.com/ _______________________________________________ BackupPC-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/
