James wrote:
>
>> Got fatal error during xfer (aborted by signal=PIPE)
>> Backup aborted by user signal
>
> This is not surprising. The abort happens when the user closes his
> laptop or unplugs from my network. What is surprising is that the
> backup *never* completes. It is my understanding that BackupPC will
> begin backing up a partial from the last file that was not backed up.
> Thus, even if a backup cannot complete in one day, or two, or three
> attempts it will gradually fill the partial and complete a backup.
What xfer method are you using? rsync/rsyncd are the only ones that
know what you already have in a partial.
> This situation has been going on for months and a complete backup has
> not been made yet. To give an idea of transfer rates on my network,
> the 200gb could be directly transferred to the server in about 4 hours.
>
> I've monitored the logs with a high verbosity and there are absolutely
> no errors. There's also no endless loops seen or other oddities. It
> chugs along processing each of the files until the user quits not
> hanging for an inordinate amount of time on any one file.
What OS? I've never been able to make windows rsync work under sshd.
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