Yes, I did move the directories, but it was immediately after install and before I had performed any of the other setup steps.
I guess from the question that that was a mistake. So how do I fix it? On Wed, 11 Mar 2009 19:55:24 +0000 backuppc-users-requ...@lists.sourceforge.net wrote: > Send BackupPC-users mailing list submissions to > backuppc-users@lists.sourceforge.net > > To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users > or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to > backuppc-users-requ...@lists.sourceforge.net > > You can reach the person managing the list at > backuppc-users-ow...@lists.sourceforge.net > > When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific > than "Re: Contents of BackupPC-users digest..." > > > Today's Topics: > > 1. Re: Resuming backup after losing connection to client > (Adam Goryachev) > 2. Re: Resuming backup after losing connection to client > (Christian G. von Busse) > 3. Re: Resuming backup after losing connection to client > (Adam Goryachev) > 4. My cpool and pool dirs are empty (Wayne L Andersen) > 5. Re: My cpool and pool dirs are empty (Les Mikesell) > 6. Re: Backup faiures, how to troublehoot (Andrew Libby) > 7. Re: Backup faiures, how to troublehoot (Les Mikesell) > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Message: 1 > Date: Wed, 11 Mar 2009 17:08:04 +1100 >From: Adam Goryachev <mailingli...@websitemanagers.com.au> > Subject: Re: [BackupPC-users] Resuming backup after losing >connection > to client > To: "General list for user discussion, questions and support" > <backuppc-users@lists.sourceforge.net> > Message-ID: <49b75544.1020...@websitemanagers.com.au> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > Christian G. von Busse wrote: >>> Just go to the home page for that computer and hit "start full >>> backup" and off it should go... >> >> But there is no way to have backuppc do this automatically if the >> backup terminated because the network connection was lost? I had >> hoped that backuppc could run unattended. >> >> The log looks like this: >> >> [full backup running] [here the network connection was lost:] >> 2009-03-10 03:05:23 Backup failed on server1 (Child exited >> prematurely) 2009-03-10 03:05:23 Running BackupPC_link server1 >> (pid=13284) 2009-03-10 03:06:03 Finished server1 (BackupPC_link >> server1) 2009-03-10 04:00:00 Next wakeup is 2009-03-10 05:00:00 >> 2009-03-10 04:00:02 Started full backup on server1 (pid=14953, >> share=Backup) 2009-03-10 04:08:09 Backup failed on server1 (Child >> exited prematurely) 2009-03-10 05:00:00 Next wakeup is 2009-03-10 >> 06:00:00 2009-03-10 05:00:02 Started full backup on server1 >> (pid=17309, share=Backup) 2009-03-10 05:08:52 Backup failed on >> server1 (Child exited prematurely) 2009-03-10 06:00:00 Next wakeup >> is 2009-03-10 07:00:00 2009-03-10 06:00:03 Started full backup on >> server1 (pid=28117, share=Backup) 2009-03-10 06:08:22 Backup failed >> on server1 (Child exited prematurely) 2009-03-10 07:00:00 Next >> wakeup is 2009-03-10 08:00:00 2009-03-10 07:00:02 Started full >> backup on server1 (pid=29979, share=Backup) 2009-03-10 07:08:33 >> Backup failed on server1 (Child exited prematurely) >> >> As you can see, after the network connection was lost, full backup >> was not resumed automatically with the error "Child exited >> prematurely". > Actually, you can see that backuppc has restarted the backup > automatically every hour which is the default wakeupschedule. > You could set the schedule to run every 10 minutes, which means >within > 10mins of the failure backuppc will retry. Of course, if backuppc > isn't actually making any progress, then it will never complete a > successful backup.... > > Regards, > Adam > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) > Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org > > iEYEARECAAYFAkm3VT0ACgkQGyoxogrTyiUcywCePXOQsw6Pff6WZxqEiul0rUMM > 9QAAmwQGaAL6bSGQFtJp1u4agox+Rtyi > =m2le > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > > > > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 2 > Date: Wed, 11 Mar 2009 07:19:44 +0100 (CET) >From: "Christian G. von Busse" <c...@kruemel.org> > Subject: Re: [BackupPC-users] Resuming backup after losing >connection > to client > To: "General list for user discussion, questions and support" > <backuppc-users@lists.sourceforge.net> > Message-ID: <3877.192.168.1.150.1236752384.squir...@www.kruemel.org> > Content-Type: text/plain;charset=iso-8859-1 > > >>> That's good to know, thanks. So the question is (only), how do I >>>tell >>> backuppc to immediately start a new/queue (full or partial) backup, >>>if >>> the prior one was terminated accidentally/abnormally. >>> Backkuppc did not start the full backup here again, yet - although >>>there >>> was no blackout period and wake up points.. >> Check your wakeupschedule, backuppc will only re-start or consider >> trying to do a needed backup once at each wakeupschedule. > > If I understand the log correctly which I just posted to this list, > backuppc did wake up again, but always terminated with some kind of >error > Backup failed on server1 (Child exited prematurely)... > > Christian > > > > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 3 > Date: Wed, 11 Mar 2009 22:52:08 +1100 >From: Adam Goryachev <mailingli...@websitemanagers.com.au> > Subject: Re: [BackupPC-users] Resuming backup after losing >connection > to client > To: "General list for user discussion, questions and support" > <backuppc-users@lists.sourceforge.net> > Message-ID: <49b7a5e8.4060...@websitemanagers.com.au> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > Christian G. von Busse wrote: >>>> That's good to know, thanks. So the question is (only), how do I >>>>tell >>>> backuppc to immediately start a new/queue (full or partial) backup, >>>>if >>>> the prior one was terminated accidentally/abnormally. >>>> Backkuppc did not start the full backup here again, yet - although >>>>there >>>> was no blackout period and wake up points.. >>> Check your wakeupschedule, backuppc will only re-start or consider >>> trying to do a needed backup once at each wakeupschedule. >> >> If I understand the log correctly which I just posted to this list, >> backuppc did wake up again, but always terminated with some kind of >>error >> Backup failed on server1 (Child exited prematurely)... > > Correct, the backup process was terminated due to "Child exited > prematurely" every time backuppc attempted to do the backup. You >should > look at the host Log file for details of what happened during each > backup attempt. Possibly none of the backups even started due to >some > error, possibly each backup ran for some period of time and >transferred > some data before failing. We don't know from the limited information >you > have provided. > > Perhaps you should try the following: > 1) login to the backuppc server > 2) su - backuppc (or whatever your backuppc user is) > 3) /path/to/backuppc/bin/BackupPC_dump -v -f server1 (or whatever >the > name of your server is) > > This will show you exactly what is happening when backuppc attempts >to > do a backup. > > You should probably tell the backuppc web interface to not run any > backups for this host for a couple of hours before you do the above, >as > I've noticed (at least on the older 2.1 version) that backuppc will > launch a new backup while the command line backup is running, and >they > will "step on each others toes" as far as both writing to the same > filenames etc... > > Regards, > Adam > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) > Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org > > iEYEARECAAYFAkm3peIACgkQGyoxogrTyiVWswCfaFf2SUQplKVORaa9BKX8WDep > g+4AniBINX0O7u7w2eiKy8CLmtKc2cTJ > =yHES > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > > > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 4 > Date: Wed, 11 Mar 2009 11:33:50 -0600 >From: "Wayne L Andersen" <way...@clima-tech.com> > Subject: [BackupPC-users] My cpool and pool dirs are empty > To: backuppc-users@lists.sourceforge.net > Message-ID: <ximss-3949...@clima-tech.com> > Content-Type: text/plain;charset="utf-8"; format="flowed" > > There must be something wrong with my installation, I am assuming >the > required hard links did not get created correctly. > > My backups and restores work great but the pooling is not >functioning, my > status page has these lines in the summary at the top. > > Pool is 0.00GB comprising 0 files and 1 directories (as of 3/11 >01:00), > Pool hashing gives 0 repeated files with longest chain 0, > Nightly cleanup removed 0 files of size 0.00GB (around 3/11 01:00), > Pool file system was recently at 46% (3/11 11:21), today's max is >46% (3/11 > 01:00) and yesterday's max was 46%. > > > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 5 > Date: Wed, 11 Mar 2009 13:45:10 -0500 >From: Les Mikesell <l...@futuresource.com> > Subject: Re: [BackupPC-users] My cpool and pool dirs are empty > To: "General list for user discussion, questions and support" > <backuppc-users@lists.sourceforge.net> > Message-ID: <49b806b6.1000...@futuresource.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed > > Wayne L Andersen wrote: >> There must be something wrong with my installation, I am assuming >>the >> required hard links did not get created correctly. >> >> My backups and restores work great but the pooling is not >>functioning, my >> status page has these lines in the summary at the top. >> >> Pool is 0.00GB comprising 0 files and 1 directories (as of 3/11 >>01:00), >> Pool hashing gives 0 repeated files with longest chain 0, >> Nightly cleanup removed 0 files of size 0.00GB (around 3/11 01:00), >> Pool file system was recently at 46% (3/11 11:21), today's max is >>46% (3/11 >> 01:00) and yesterday's max was 46%. > > Did you change the archive location after installing? Is everything >on > the same filesystem? Does the backuppc user have write access to > pool/cpool? > > -- > Les Mikesell > lesmikes...@gmail.com > > > > > > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 6 > Date: Wed, 11 Mar 2009 15:15:01 -0400 >From: Andrew Libby <ali...@xforty.com> > Subject: Re: [BackupPC-users] Backup faiures, how to troublehoot > To: "General list for user discussion, questions and support" > <backuppc-users@lists.sourceforge.net> > Message-ID: <49b80db5.2020...@xforty.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 > > Andrew Libby wrote: >> Les Mikesell wrote: >>> Andrew Libby wrote: >>>>> There are a lot of files on the system, and backups take >>>> quite a while so I upped the timeout to 40 hrs, but >>>> backups seem to be failing now in under 20 hrs when they >>>> were failing at the 20 hr mark. >>>> >>>> Any hints or suggestions are greatly apprecaiated. Other >>>> info that might be helpful: >>>> >>>> Both client and server are ubuntu 8.04. >>>> Transport is rsync. Client has about 6.5 million files. >>> One possibility is a corrupted file system. Have you done an fsck >>> recently? That's also a lot of files to process in one run. Rsync >>> loads the whole directory tree in RAM and becomes extremely slow if >>>you >>> go into swap. >>> >> >> Hi Les, >> >> So we calculated it and the ram comes to under a gig. We've >> got 4G of ram. The system does not seem to swap when >> processing a backup. fsck also seems to be in good standing. >> >> Thanks for the suggestions, >> >> Andy > > Okay, so I've got some more information. Seems that the > log in /var/lib/backuppc/log called LOG has > > 2009-03-11 10:12:23 shyamalan: Out of memory! > 2009-03-11 10:12:35 Backup failed on shyamalan (Child exited > prematurely) > > > I thought out of memory errors were to happen on the client, > rather than the server. I don't know why I would think that > though. > > The server here has 4G, and as I said, the ram required for > the 6M files should be under a gig 6512257 * 100 == 621M > unless my math stinks (and it frequently does). > > My sar stats clearly show the backuppc server running out > of memory, but swap utilization remains low. > > Thanks for any further insight. > > Andy > > > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 7 > Date: Wed, 11 Mar 2009 14:55:07 -0500 >From: Les Mikesell <lesmikes...@gmail.com> > Subject: Re: [BackupPC-users] Backup faiures, how to troublehoot > To: "General list for user discussion, questions and support" > <backuppc-users@lists.sourceforge.net> > Message-ID: <49b8171b.2000...@gmail.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed > > Andrew Libby wrote: >> >>> >>> So we calculated it and the ram comes to under a gig. We've >>> got 4G of ram. The system does not seem to swap when >>> processing a backup. fsck also seems to be in good standing. >>> >>> Thanks for the suggestions, >>> >>> Andy >> >> Okay, so I've got some more information. Seems that the >> log in /var/lib/backuppc/log called LOG has >> >> 2009-03-11 10:12:23 shyamalan: Out of memory! >> 2009-03-11 10:12:35 Backup failed on shyamalan (Child exited >> prematurely) >> >> >> I thought out of memory errors were to happen on the client, >> rather than the server. I don't know why I would think that >> though. > > The client sends the directory list to the server, then the server >walks > though it comparing against the previous full. > >> The server here has 4G, and as I said, the ram required for >> the 6M files should be under a gig 6512257 * 100 == 621M >> unless my math stinks (and it frequently does). > > Where did you find the '100' factor? I'd have guessed bigger - and >I > think some versions of 64 bit perl have bugs that make it consume >more > memory. It might work better to stay 32-bit on a 4 gig machine - or >add > more RAM if you are 64-bit. > >> My sar stats clearly show the backuppc server running out >> of memory, but swap utilization remains low. > > Sar takes snapshots at 10 minute intervals - you might easily miss > peaks. If you are running more than one backup concurrently it >might > help to cut back. > > -- > Les Mikesell > lesmikes...@gmail.com > > > > > > ------------------------------ > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Apps built with the Adobe(R) Flex(R) framework and Flex Builder(TM) >are > powering Web 2.0 with engaging, cross-platform capabilities. 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