John Rouillard wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 12, 2009 at 05:44:33PM +0100, Matthias Meyer wrote:
>> Sometimes my backups abort with different failures.
>> Anybody know the meaning of/reason for the following failures?
>> 1) Aborting backup up after signal ALRM
>
> The backup is taking longer than your $Conf{ClientTimeout}
> setting. Once you hit $Conf{ClientTimeout} seconds a sigalarm is sent
> to the process, which causes it to exit.
Did this occur also if data wil be transmitted between client and server or
only if no data received until $Conf{ClientTimeout} seconds?
>
>> 2) Backup aborted (Child exited prematurely)
>
> Could be a number of things. IIRC this also shows up when it fails
> during the initial startup. If you also see a message similar to
> "can't transfer 4 bytes" and you are using the ssh transport mechanism
> there is something causing bogus output in the .login or other startup
> files for the shell (or ssh config files).
>
>> 3) Aborting backup up after signal INT
>
> Usully I see this when I stop the backup using the web interface.
>
>> 4) Aborting backup up after signal PIPE
>
> I see this as well, not sure what the cause is. Something failed in
> the interprocess communication between the processes backuppc spawns.
> What failed who knows.
>
>
Thanks
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