On Wed, Dec 16, 2009 at 03:13:23PM -0600, Les Mikesell wrote: > Robin Lee Powell wrote: > > > > They're just not *doing* anything. Nothing has errored out; BackupPC > > thinks everything is fine. > > > > Some of the places this is happening are very small backups that > > usually take a matter of minutes. > > > > Suddenly this isn't looking like a networking problem anymore; the > > networking appears to be just fine. This is looking like a BackupPC > > problem. My version, by the way, is 3.1.0. It's like at some point > > BackupPC forgot that it was supposed to be trying to back anything > > up. > > This sounds vaguely familiar, perhaps like: > http://www.mail-archive.com/backuppc-de...@lists.sourceforge.net/msg00321.html > but I don't know if that had a resolution. It doesn't seem common, though.
That part turns out to be Extremely Lame: it was adding "-vv" to ssh. Drop the -vs and put the -q back in, and that part gets better. Which means I'm sort of back to the drawing board. I'll try with ServerAliveInterval=60 and -q and let y'all know. > > The backup always stops doing anything right after lstat of the > > last file in /pictures/agate/shared/pictures/0216/2987/. > > According to ls -U, /pictures/agate/shared/pictures/0216/ is the > > last directory in /pictures/agate/shared/pictures/, and > > /pictures/agate/shared/pictures/0216/2987/ is the last directory > > in /pictures/agate/shared/pictures/0216/. Now, there are other > > directories in /pictures/agate/shared/ that ls -U after > > pictures/, but with rsync 3.0 on the client, I'm assuming those > > are handled in parallel. > > I don't think that's true. Backuppc is going to insist on > protocol 28 which, I think, means it has to get the entire > directory tree before starting the comparison. Then it's even weirder. :) But see above. -Robin -- They say: "The first AIs will be built by the military as weapons." And I'm thinking: "Does it even occur to you to try for something other than the default outcome?" See http://shrunklink.com/cdiz http://www.digitalkingdom.org/~rlpowell/ *** http://www.lojban.org/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Verizon Developer Community Take advantage of Verizon's best-in-class app development support A streamlined, 14 day to market process makes app distribution fast and easy Join now and get one step closer to millions of Verizon customers http://p.sf.net/sfu/verizon-dev2dev _______________________________________________ BackupPC-users mailing list BackupPC-users@lists.sourceforge.net List: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users Wiki: http://backuppc.wiki.sourceforge.net Project: http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/
