Re: [BackupPC-users] aborted by signal=PIPE errors.

2008-07-16 Thread Peter Nankivell
On Thursday 17 July 2008 00:46, Les Mikesell wrote: > Peter Nankivell wrote: > > No problems. Thanks to everyone who contributed. There were plenty > > who did so unwittingly through their posts to other lists. > > > > As a measure of how happy I feel about the solution, my first successful > >

Re: [BackupPC-users] aborted by signal=PIPE errors.

2008-07-16 Thread Les Mikesell
Peter Nankivell wrote: > No problems. Thanks to everyone who contributed. There were plenty > who did so unwittingly through their posts to other lists. > > As a measure of how happy I feel about the solution, my first successful full > dump of this machine took 22 minutes compared to 137 minute

Re: [BackupPC-users] aborted by signal=PIPE errors.

2008-07-16 Thread Peter Nankivell
No problems. Thanks to everyone who contributed. There were plenty who did so unwittingly through their posts to other lists. As a measure of how happy I feel about the solution, my first successful full dump of this machine took 22 minutes compared to 137 minutes when I had to use the "--whole-

Re: [BackupPC-users] aborted by signal=PIPE errors.

2008-07-16 Thread Carl Wilhelm Soderstrom
On 07/16 03:35 , Peter Nankivell wrote: > For the client "tcp segmentation offload" was "on". Turning it off > using > > # ethtool -K eth0 tso off > > worked! The test "rsync" now works wonderfully. Thanks for the update Peter! This might be very useful troubleshooting information in the f

Re: [BackupPC-users] aborted by signal=PIPE errors.

2008-07-15 Thread Peter Nankivell
rver tonight. > Although I suspect the client as the server backs up other machines OK. > > Thanks, Peter. > > On Tuesday 15 July 2008 13:17:16 Adam Goryachev wrote: > > Holger Parplies wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > > > Peter Nankivell wrote on 2008-07-15 0

Re: [BackupPC-users] aborted by signal=PIPE errors.

2008-07-15 Thread Jon Craig
As a debugging step, any way you could change this client to use rsync without "ssh". Not sure what your level of security concern is but the PIPE error points to either SSH collapsing or RSYNC collapsing on the client side. I believe this because your getting a PIPE error rather than some sort o

Re: [BackupPC-users] aborted by signal=PIPE errors.

2008-07-14 Thread Peter Nankivell
hanks, Peter. On Tuesday 15 July 2008 13:17:16 Adam Goryachev wrote: > Holger Parplies wrote: > > Hi, > > > > Peter Nankivell wrote on 2008-07-15 09:17:48 +1000 [Re: [BackupPC-users] aborted by signal=PIPE errors.]: > >> [...] > >> If it is all due to ssh a

Re: [BackupPC-users] aborted by signal=PIPE errors.

2008-07-14 Thread Adam Goryachev
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Holger Parplies wrote: > Hi, > > Peter Nankivell wrote on 2008-07-15 09:17:48 +1000 [Re: [BackupPC-users] > aborted by signal=PIPE errors.]: >> [...] >> If it is all due to ssh and hardware it makes me worry about >>

Re: [BackupPC-users] aborted by signal=PIPE errors.

2008-07-14 Thread Les Mikesell
Peter Nankivell wrote: > Hello, > > Heaps of data goes over this link, apparently without error and it has been > doing it for at least a year. Isn't it likely that I would have seen TCP > errors throw up problems with other s/w by now? TCP retries can cover up a lot of problems. > If the data i

Re: [BackupPC-users] aborted by signal=PIPE errors.

2008-07-14 Thread Peter Nankivell
't it? Cheers, Peter. On Tuesday 15 July 2008 10:02:42 Holger Parplies wrote: > Hi, > > Peter Nankivell wrote on 2008-07-15 09:17:48 +1000 [Re: [BackupPC-users] aborted by signal=PIPE errors.]: > > [...] > > If it is all due to ssh and hardware it makes me worry about > &g

Re: [BackupPC-users] aborted by signal=PIPE errors.

2008-07-14 Thread Holger Parplies
Hi, Peter Nankivell wrote on 2008-07-15 09:17:48 +1000 [Re: [BackupPC-users] aborted by signal=PIPE errors.]: > [...] > If it is all due to ssh and hardware it makes me worry about > the resilience of ssh. Surely its protocol should be able to > retry on corrupted data?

Re: [BackupPC-users] aborted by signal=PIPE errors.

2008-07-14 Thread Bruno Faria
You guys have been a great help! I've never gotten such useful and fast replies before. Keep up the good work BackupPC community! Now that you guys have mentioned about the problem maybe being with the host itself, I checked the host to see if there were problems. Sure enough, there is a problem w

Re: [BackupPC-users] aborted by signal=PIPE errors.

2008-07-14 Thread Peter Nankivell
Bruno, I have been chasing this problem also, but I have additional problems. One is that the backup occasionally hangs without any error message, the other, more frequently, is that the backup fails with an additional message "corrupted MAC on input". The "MAC" is not the address of the NIC, but

Re: [BackupPC-users] aborted by signal=PIPE errors.

2008-07-14 Thread Holger Parplies
Hi, Bruno Faria wrote on 2008-07-14 13:11:45 -0500 [[BackupPC-users] aborted by signal=PIPE errors.]: > [...] > I searched google about this error message, and it seems like many backuppc > users have encountered this before, although I could not find any solutions. > [...] > Ple

Re: [BackupPC-users] aborted by signal=PIPE errors.

2008-07-14 Thread Bruno Faria
Thanks Tony, with that command I was able to check the end of XferLog file. Here's what the log file says: Can't write 32780 bytes to socket Read EOF: Connection reset by peer Tried again: got 0 bytes finish: removing in-process file /path/to/some/directory/images/nat_logo-on.gif Child is abortin

Re: [BackupPC-users] aborted by signal=PIPE errors.

2008-07-14 Thread Bowie Bailey
Bruno Faria wrote: > > As Bowie mentioned it could that BackupPC is chocking on some large > file. > > I tried to find where the backup is stopping by checking the errors > Xferr log, but the file was too big to view in a web browser, since it > contained a list of everything that was backed up,

Re: [BackupPC-users] aborted by signal=PIPE errors.

2008-07-14 Thread Tony Schreiner
On Jul 14, 2008, at 3:27 PM, Bruno Faria wrote: > As Bowie mentioned it could that BackupPC is chocking on some large > file. > > I tried to find where the backup is stopping by checking the errors > Xferr log, but the file was too big to view in a web browser, since > it contained a list o

Re: [BackupPC-users] aborted by signal=PIPE errors.

2008-07-14 Thread Bruno Faria
As Bowie mentioned it could that BackupPC is chocking on some large file. I tried to find where the backup is stopping by checking the errors Xferr log, but the file was too big to view in a web browser, since it contained a list of everything that was backed up, up to the point that the backups f

Re: [BackupPC-users] aborted by signal=PIPE errors.

2008-07-14 Thread Renke Brausse
Hello Bruno, > The size of backups varies. I have gotten the "aborted by signal=PIPE" > error by 6GB backups while I have also gotten for 30-40GB backups. > > I have also increased the timeout period to a large number since I > have some large backups. I never saw your specific failure but I jus

Re: [BackupPC-users] aborted by signal=PIPE errors.

2008-07-14 Thread Bowie Bailey
Bruno Faria wrote: > Hey guys, > > This is the third message that I'm posting about this problem, but so > far I haven't gotten any solutions. > > I'm getting the error message: aborted by signal=PIPE in some of the > hosts that I'm backing up. Some hosts get this error while doing > incremental

Re: [BackupPC-users] aborted by signal=PIPE errors.

2008-07-14 Thread Bruno Faria
Thanks for the reply Renke! All of the hosts are linux machines that have static IP address, and they're being backed up via rsync. The size of backups varies. I have gotten the "aborted by signal=PIPE" error by 6GB backups while I have also gotten for 30-40GB backups. I have also increased the

Re: [BackupPC-users] aborted by signal=PIPE errors.

2008-07-14 Thread Renke Brausse
Hi Bruno > Please let me know if anyway knows of a solution to backups "aborted > by signal=PIPE". no solution but can you isolate the issue? eg transport method, size of the backupped hosts, DHCP or static address, ... (I'm not aware of your first mails so sorry if you explained all of the stu

[BackupPC-users] aborted by signal=PIPE errors.

2008-07-14 Thread Bruno Faria
Hey guys, This is the third message that I'm posting about this problem, but so far I haven't gotten any solutions. I'm getting the error message: aborted by signal=PIPE in some of the hosts that I'm backing up. Some hosts get this error while doing incremental backups, while other hosts get duri