Hi Carl, As I said in my opening problem description, I'm computer literate, but not very Linux knowledgeable. Before I retired, my employer used Windows and since I networked into the system, I had to comply with their rules. Now I run Linux as my primary boot and resort to Windows only when I don't know how to get it done in Linux.
I have been running personal computers since 1980 and am still supporting these vintage machines! My original build is still running. I know there are many facilities to monitor processes to get data to better understand how the system is working, but I don't command these tools, as yet... BUT, I am a good student! I'm not familiar with the ps command but will probably get more familiar with it tomorrow! When I ran the localhost backup job in manual, it reported that it was starting with all of the right log entries, etc., but the overall system observation did not support a tar create in progress. I run gkrellm system monitor for CPU, processes, power supply, and disk activity on the various mounts. None of this supported a tar backup in progress. The log for the test was ... 2012-01-16 15:28:10 full backup started for directory /home 2012-01-16 17:27:35 Aborting backup up after signal INT This backup process has been troublesome ever since I set up using the sudoers method. When I first set it up, all looked good then I started getting errors... 2011-03-24 01:00:02 incr backup started back to 2011-03-17 01:00:02 (backup #234) for directory /home 2011-03-24 01:00:28 incr backup 237 complete, 1728 files, bytes, 3 xferErrs ( bad files, bad shares, 3 other) 2011-03-24 01:00:28 removing incr backup 230 2011-03-25 01:00:01 full backup started for directory /home 2011-03-25 01:37:11 Got fatal error during xfer (Tar exited with error 512 () status) 2011-03-25 01:37:17 Backup aborted (Tar exited with error 512 () status) 2011-03-25 01:37:17 Saved partial dump 238 Then it started working again... 2011-08-08 06:00:01 incr backup started back to 2011-08-02 00:00:01 (backup #270) for directory /home/ken 2011-08-08 06:00:04 Got fatal error during xfer (Tar exited with error 512 () status) 2011-08-08 06:00:09 Backup aborted (Tar exited with error 512 () status) 2011-08-15 01:00:01 removing incr backup 264 2011-08-15 01:00:04 full backup started for directory /home/ken 2011-08-15 01:42:40 full backup 272 complete, 14079 files, 0 bytes, 0 xferErrs (0 bad files, 0 bad shares, 0 other) 2011-08-15 01:42:40 removing full backup 263 All seemed to be fine until I started getting current error ... 2012-01-22 05:00:01 full backup started for directory /home 2012-01-22 05:00:03 Got fatal error during xfer (No files dumped for share /home) 2012-01-22 05:00:08 Backup aborted (No files dumped for share /home) 2012-01-22 06:00:01 full backup started for directory /home 2012-01-22 06:00:03 Got fatal error during xfer (No files dumped for share /home) 2012-01-22 06:00:08 Backup aborted (No files dumped for share /home) The home directory is not very critical mostly because I don't trust it and copy all critical files to the data server which get backed up via rsync and seems to be working just fine. But I fear there may be some underlying problem that may put the entire system at risk. Later, -- ken On Mon, 2012-01-23 at 14:44 -0500, Carl Wilhelm Soderstrom wrote: > Sorry about the slow (and probably unhelpful) reply to this. > > On 01/16 05:31 , Kenneth L. Owen wrote: > > Reviewing my logs, a full backup of localhost usually takes about one > > and a half hours with the maximum being close to 2 hours and this is > > when this job is running concurrently with the rsync backups on the > > remote machines. It has been approximately two hours now with this job > > running exclusively. I have checked on the machine periodically and it > > does not look like a tar create is in progress. My terminal session has > > given NO errors. I'm going to abort the command to see if it get any > > additional information. > > > > I got the following: > > ---------------------------------------------------------------- > > exiting after signal ALRM > > Not saving this as a partial backup since it has fewer files than the > > prior one (got 0 and 0 files versus 0) > > dump failed: received signal=ALRM > > ---------------------------------------------------------------- > > While you were running the BackupPC_tarCreate job, did you watch the > processes on the system (using another login of course) using 'ps ax' or > 'top' or the like? Was there actually a tar process started? > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Keep Your Developer Skills Current with LearnDevNow! The most comprehensive online learning library for Microsoft developers is just $99.99! Visual Studio, SharePoint, SQL - plus HTML5, CSS3, MVC3, Metro Style Apps, more. Free future releases when you subscribe now! http://p.sf.net/sfu/learndevnow-d2d _______________________________________________ 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/
