Hello again, On Wed, 17 Jul 2019, David Koski wrote:
I suspect there are over ten million files but I don't have a good way of telling now.
This indicates to me an issue more fundamental than not being able to back up a few files using BackupPC. You need to have *some* kind of a handle on (1) what the computers are capable of doing and (2) what it is that you've asked them to do for you. You might also want to have a way of ensuring that (3) they did what they were bidden - aside, that is, from looking at a Web page that says so, and crossing your fingers. At the very worst you could start a shell, use 'cd' to set the current directory to one you want to back up, and use 'ls -lR > /tmp/dirlist' to get a list of the files that (you hope) you're asking to be backed up - including the file sizes and timestamps. There'll be better ways of doing it of course; 'find' and 'du' spring to mind - all these have the usual 'man' pages, and there are tutorials all over the Web. As I said in my earlier reply to you (Tue, 9 Jul 2019 13:42:32 +0100), I suggest that you split the backup into smaller pieces, and attempt to back those up separately. Be methodical. Make the first piece very small, let the backup complete, and verify its success. Repeat with progressively larger pieces until you (a) get the hang of it and (b) find something which goes wrong. You can't expect to run before you can walk with something as complex as BackupPC. Could a file (or files) you're trying to back up be enormous, that is in the region of many gigabytes? I've seen BackupPC version 3 choke on a file (in a user's home directory) called '.xsession-errors' (this is just an example) which at the time got out of control for reasons which I'm afraid I can't now remember. Anyway it practically filled a 500 GByte disc, and prevented backups of that machine from completing until I'd fixed the problem. We're still very light on detail here, and you also don't seem to have addressed Mr. Barratt's question (Tue, 9 Jul 2019 23:13:56 -0700). -- 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/
