Hi there, Thanks for your reply.
On Thu, 20 Sep 2018, Craig Barratt wrote:
First, this error message looks like just a bug in the message text: it shouldn't be concatenating those paths: > RmTreeQuietInner: > /mnt/3TLV/backuppc/pc/kestrel/268//var/lib/backuppc/pc/kestrel/268/XXXXX > isn't a directory (while removing > /var/lib/backuppc/pc/kestrel/268/XXXXX/f.cache)
That's good news, so I guess it doesn't hurt anything and it can be left with you to fix in due course.
Back to the original issue: the most likely reason backups are taking longer that you expect is that your excludes are not correct.
That's not the case here.
Are you sure you are excluding /proc and any other sparse potentially large files (eg, /var/log/wtmp)?
Yes I am. For the vast majority of machines (including the one for which rsync_bpc which was in an infinite loop), I'm only backing up /etc/ and /home/. Perhaps the share names don't make it obvious, but bear in mind that I've been backing up most of these machines using BackupPC V3 for nearly a decade. As you probably saw I've killed the errant rsync_bpc process (the one which had so far taken ten days to do an eight minute job) so the best I can offer at the moment is to say it looks like manually running a BackupPC_backupDelete job caused rsync_bpc to loop on the next backup.
For the backup that is taking a lot longer than expected, you should look at its current XferLOG file.
The backup which ran after I killed the one which was spinning took four hours 20 minutes to complete and it was a full backup. The one which is running now was started 24 hours later. It's still running after 19 hours and the XferLOG contains two bytes: tornado:/mnt/3TLV/backuppc/pc/localhost# >>> ls -l XferLOG.738.z -rw-r----- 1 backuppc backuppc 2 Sep 19 20:00 XferLOG.738.z tornado:/mnt/3TLV/backuppc/pc/localhost# >>> hexdump XferLOG.738.z 0000000 5e78 0000002 Now this has your attention, would you offer your thoughts on my use of BackupPC_backupDelete in the way that I used it? Specifically, as a tool to remove unwanted parts of all backups for a given host? It seems to me to be a long felt want. In one particular case here, the unwanted directory was backed up because a directory whose name began with a dot also had a space in it. :( -- 73, Ged. _______________________________________________ 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/
