I made a few changes to the Linux machine being backed up - I stopped some
unused processes - apache, mysql, and a couple of others, which freed up a
fair amount of memory. Then started a new full backup. The backup went a
little farther, but now I get a bunch of these errors all in the same
directory -
Remote[2]: file has vanished:
"/home/katie/.mozilla/firefox/t7hd74mu.default/Cache/CF4DEE1Ed01"
Remote[2]: file has vanished:
"/home/katie/.mozilla/firefox/t7hd74mu.default/Cache/D
so rsync has died again. I googled the error, and the only recommendation I
could find was not to use rsync through ssh, but just use rsyncd without
ssh. That should work in my environment since I am just backing up over a
:LAN, but is this the real solution? Or, should I just remove
/home/katie/.mozilla/firefox/t7hd74mu.default/Cache/
from the backup? Is that a common practice, to remove browser cache files
from the backup?. BTW, no one was using the machine while the backup was
taking place, so I am not sure why they disappeared.
Mark
On Tue, Feb 2, 2010 at 2:17 PM, Paul Farrow <
backuppc_maill...@farrowcomputing.com> wrote:
> My setup is very similar to yours where I have an old 2.6.8 kernel running
> on a mini-itx machine 800mhz with gig of memory in it. I did have similar
> problems trying to backup my snow leopard osx mac via rsync. It would just
> stop with various client has aborted the process. What I did in the end was
> try to do directories where it had stopped ONLY (ie include files only
> setting in config) and try to illimunate any problem files. Also although
> backuppc uses 2.8 protocol I had read on various rsync forums that the
> later versions were more efficient in the way they do things with the tree
> structures so I upgraded all my rsync machines to 3.7 and touch wood that
> seemed to sort the problem. I have just finished doing a full backup of my
> laptop after 10 hours and 46gb later, worked a treat.
>
> One thing I found with the laptop also was that it would go to sleep when
> on batteries and that would drop the wifi and hence the rsync would stop.
>
> Hope that helps.
>
>
> Les Mikesell wrote:
>
> On 2/2/2010 11:25 AM, Mark Phillips wrote:
>
>
> This means that rsync or ssh crashed on the client side. Likely reasons
> are being out of memory or file system errors.
>
>
> Les,
>
> top shows:
>
> top - 10:23:03 up 1 day, 2:50, 2 users, load average: 0.44, 0.58, 0.54
> Tasks: 149 total, 3 running, 146 sleeping, 0 stopped, 0 zombie
> Cpu(s): 10.0%us, 3.3%sy, 0.0%ni, 77.7%id, 6.7%wa, 1.0%hi, 1.3%si,
> 0.0%st
> Mem: 1034344k total, 1018476k used, 15868k free, 3656k buffers
> Swap: 2000052k total, 20724k used, 1979328k free, 540424k cached
>
> So I should have enough memory, or at least swap space? I will check the
> file system. Thanks!
>
>
> Rsync has a certain amount of memory overhead per file in the tree - at
> least for version < 3.x and I'm not sure if the newer versions are
> better when talking to backuppc which will downgrade the xfer protocol
> anyway. One other possibility is that if you are connected through NAT
> or a firewall there can be long periods of inactivity when rsync looks
> for mismatching files that can make the connection time out and be dropped.
>
>
>
>
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