On Fri, Jul 1, 2011 at 11:56 AM, Aleksey Tsalolikhin <[email protected]> wrote: > I just noticed one of my servers has not had a successful full backup > for over 60 days. Incremental backups still succeed. > > Full backups fail after 2-4 hours with: > > Got fatal error during xfer (Child exited prematurely) > > Right now I've got a full backup running (according to the Web UI) > but if I look on the server, I can see the ssh process that is the > child of the BackupPC dump process is defunct: > > ps shows: > > backuppc PID PPID 0 Jun30 ? 00:00:03 [ssh] <defunct> > > So I know this full backup will fail as well once BackupPC realizes > the child is dead. > > BackupPC version 3.1.0 on CentOS 5.5 (64-bit) > > > I'm going to update to CentOS 5.6 and restart the full backup, > and put an strace on the ssh process... trying to figure out > why it goes defunct.
I've updated to CentOS 5.6. I'm running an strace on both SSH's processes (on the BackupPC server and the BackupPC client). I also added an strace on the rsync on the BackupPC client. Let me know if you have any other suggestions, please... Best, -at ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ All of the data generated in your IT infrastructure is seriously valuable. Why? It contains a definitive record of application performance, security threats, fraudulent activity, and more. Splunk takes this data and makes sense of it. IT sense. And common sense. http://p.sf.net/sfu/splunk-d2d-c2 _______________________________________________ BackupPC-users mailing list [email protected] List: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users Wiki: http://backuppc.wiki.sourceforge.net Project: http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/
