Re: [BackupPC-users] BackupPC_tarExtract exited with fail status 256

[Craig Barratt via BackupPC-users]

I'd like to get to the bottom of this.

First, please summarize your relevant $Conf Xfer settings for this host.
Can you email the first several lines of the XferLOG file, in particular
the lines that print which external commands it is running.

When the tar backup appears to be stalled, please do the following:

   - run ps auxww (options might vary based on which server OS you are
   running), and find the relevant backups processes: BackupPC_dump,
   BackupPC_tarExtract, and the corresponding ssh command that runs the remote
   tar.
   - run "strace -p PID" as root, for each number PID listed by ps above.
   Please send me the output.
   - wait a few mins, re-run the strace commands and see if the output is
   the same.

We should probably take these details off-list - just email them to me
directly.

Craig

On Tue, Jul 11, 2017 at 12:34 PM, Jenkins, Wade William 
wrote:

> I ran into a similar error when I switched backups from rsync to tar to
> try to deal with a persistent timeout issue with one of my hosts.  I’m
> still troubleshooting (in another thread on this list), but it’s starting
> to look like a network/interface issue to me.
>
>
>
> *From: *Dan LeVasseur 
> *Reply-To: *"General list for user discussion, questions and support" <
> backuppc-users@lists.sourceforge.net>
> *Date: *Tuesday, July 11, 2017 at 3:23 PM
> *To: *"tkev...@tkevans.com" , "General list for user
> discussion, questions and support" 
> *Subject: *Re: [BackupPC-users] BackupPC_tarExtract exited with fail
> status 256
>
>
>
> Yeah, I searched and saw your post with no response.  Quite honestly I
> didn't know how to reply specifically to your message so I mailed my own
> with your same title.  So, sorry if I did things "wrong".
>
>
>
> Oddly enough, it seems to only really happen to one or two of my client
> machines (my machine specifically being one of them).
>
>
>
> On Tue, Jul 11, 2017 at 1:40 PM, Tim Evans  wrote:
>
> On 07/11/2017 01:53 PM, Dan LeVasseur wrote:
>
> I too am having this issue again with version 4.1.3 fresh from GIT.  I did
> check the version of the file in /bin and it does show as being from 4.1.3.
>
> Anything I can run to help you diagnose the problem?
>
>
> I'm the original poster on this, and yours is the only response.
>
> Meanwhile, I have backups running continuously here and they never, EVER
> complete.  Every 24 hours, the current one gets killed with this same error
> and cleaned up, then a new one starts.
>
>
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Re: [BackupPC-users] Ran out of inodes

[G.W. Haywood]

Hi there,

On Sat, 15 Jul 2017, Tapio Lehtonen wrote:


... on Debian Wheezy. ...


Well past time to upgrade, no?


Ran out of inodes ...


That's the trouble with Maildir. :(


250 GB filesystem ... Ext4 I can not increase max inodes.


Yes you can, and storage is cheap.

Buy another drive.  A bigger one, of course.
Copy the existing filesytem to it with 'dd'.
Extend the filesystem on the new drive to fill it.
Robert is your proverbial uncle: more inodes.

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Re: [BackupPC-users] Backing up the server computer

[Bzzzz]

On Sun, 16 Jul 2017 10:12:39 -0400
Bob Katz  wrote:

> I appreciate that. Well, if I have to do a bare metal restore I would
> use a clone, it's safer, if it's recent.

I don't see where it could be safer; the worse you can have are eventual
dangling files if the install image has changed a lot between you
original system installation and the restore.

And as you said about the clone: "IF it's recent" - which is almost
always not the case, this is where BPC take it's whole value: at worse,
you'll restore the yesterday backup, which usually doesn't take more time
than an image restore.
In a production environment where today's work _must_ be saved, a
combination of BPC and several snapshots a day does the trick,
providing FS/Network core/Network speed allows it in a reasonable
time slice.

> My object of backing up the
> server is that hopefully I could get myself out of a disaster by
> digging through incrementals.

? My object of backing up the server is to recover it fully functional
with the minimal loss of data in a minimum of time…

JY

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Re: [BackupPC-users] Backing up the server computer

[Bob Katz]

On Sat, 2017-07-15 at 01:16 +0200, B wrote:
> On Fri, 14 Jul 2017 18:56:19 -0400
> Paul Fox  wrote:
> 
> Just a precision for B.Katz: I also have a script that creates an
> _INSTALLED_PKGS.txt file from the usual command (debian),
> launched as a pre-backup command to be able to easily reconstruct
> the full exact working system from a minimal install.
> 
> JY


I appreciate that. Well, if I have to do a bare metal restore I would
use a clone, it's safer, if it's recent. My object of backing up the
server is that hopefully I could get myself out of a disaster by
digging through incrementals.

BK

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