I'm running BackupPC 3.0 on Debian Etch and on Debian Lenny. My machines have more RAM than you (1GB), but I haven't had any problems with them.
Have you confirmed that there is actually a transfer taking place? You can either use iftop to monitor network traffic, or use "du -csh /var/lib/backuppc" every few minutes to see if the pool is growing or not. When I configured my first machine I had some stuff set wrong that resulted in backups starting, but never transferring anything. It was a problem with a misconfigured sudoers file, and sudo was waiting for a password (but the backup status showed "in progress"). -Rob Nicholas Mistry wrote: > I am seeing a very strange problem after transitioning to backuppc > 3.0. Backups are taking considerably longer, and i am frequently > getting out of memory kernel panics messages dumped to the syslog. > > My previous config was a P3-450 w/ 256MB ram, 10GB Internal drive, and a > 700GB external RAID-5 array. This machine ran debian 3.0 and Backuppc > 2.x ( i frequently updated it). > > The new machine is a P3-800 w/ 256MB ram, 10GB Internal drive, and a > 2.0TB external RAID-6 array. This machine is a fresh install of > debian 4.x and runs Backuppc 3.0 > > Both machines had aproximately 800MB of swap, and were configured to do > backups via RSYNC/RSYNCD or SMB. > > I know that the first machine was slow, it took a whole day to do a > 100GB backup over a 100Mbit link. But the second machine is taking > many days to complete the same job. I started a full backup on the 3rd > of october and it is still running today. > > I have already run extensive diagnostics on all the hardware, so i know > that the machine is fine. > > Before i start racking my brain, i wanted to find out if anyone else had > experienced this type of problem after moving to backuppc 3? Has > anyone seen memory leaks with backuppc running on debian 4? > > > Thanks > > -N > > -- > Nicholas Mistry > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > 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 > BackupPC-users@lists.sourceforge.net > 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 BackupPC-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/
