That appears to have been the problem and the solution. Thank you! ATB,
Paul On 26/11/2020 10:41, David While via BackupPC-users wrote: > > Have a look here https://github.com/backuppc/backuppc/issues/369 > > I think this might be the same problem - not actually a problem with > BackupPC but with rsync. > > David While BSc(Hons) MBSC CEng CITP > > On 26/11/2020 10:19, Paul Leyland wrote: >> >> Another problem has cropped up with the newly installed 20.04LTS release. >> >> The Ubuntu system backs up several other machines as well as itself, >> one of which runs Ubuntu 20.10, two Gentoo boxes and a Windows 10 >> machine. The Linux boxes all use rsync whereas the Windows box >> exports its disk to the backup machine which mounts it with Samba. >> Backups of the server and of its Windows client work fine. >> >> So far the other Ubuntu system and one Gentoo box go into a strange >> failure mode. It is possble that the other may do so too but it >> hasn't had chance to do so yet. >> >> The failure goes as follows. First a backup, whether incremental or >> full doesn't matter, is started. I monitor its progress with lsof on >> each system to see what is being read and written. I also use "ls >> -larts" in active subdirectories of /var/lib/backuppc/pc/PCNAME/new >> to monitor what is being written and read. All goes well for a long >> time then activity apparently ceases, but only apparently. >> >> What is really happening is that the newly formed XferLOG.z grows >> enormously. Until it was killed just now, that file had reached >> 4180700817 bytes (3.9GiB) after 6 hours and then stopped growing. A >> typical log file might be 20MiB. Examination with BackupPC_zcat on >> the giant file shows the regular log lines for a long time but >> eventually turns into binary mush. >> >> The NewFileList file is also strange. It ends part way through a >> standard line as follows: >> >> 486f208a006a335645ec1839b9c001ac 189 >> f%2f/flib/ffirmware/fcxgb4/fconfigs/attrib >> bc6f59e44fdcdac6a4034b43f588bafe 449 f%2f/flib/ffirmware/fcxgb4/attrib >> 3f250cfd4201077c6e341454dd042d3c 766 f%2f/flib/ffi >> >> and is 24756 (i.e. 6 * 4096) bytes long. >> >> Anyone else seen similar behaviour and / or have an idea as to what >> may be going wrong? >> >> >> Thanks, >> >> Paul >> >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> BackupPC-users mailing list >> BackupPC-users@lists.sourceforge.net >> List: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users >> Wiki: https://github.com/backuppc/backuppc/wiki >> Project: https://backuppc.github.io/backuppc/ > > <https://www.avast.com/sig-email?utm_medium=email&utm_source=link&utm_campaign=sig-email&utm_content=emailclient> > Virus-free. www.avast.com > <https://www.avast.com/sig-email?utm_medium=email&utm_source=link&utm_campaign=sig-email&utm_content=emailclient> > > > <#DAB4FAD8-2DD7-40BB-A1B8-4E2AA1F9FDF2> > > > _______________________________________________ > BackupPC-users mailing list > BackupPC-users@lists.sourceforge.net > List: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users > Wiki: https://github.com/backuppc/backuppc/wiki > Project: https://backuppc.github.io/backuppc/
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