[BackupPC-users] BackupPC never ends

2019-07-29 Thread Mariano Sanfilippo
Hello, i have connected backuppc to my client server through ssh keys and rsync, on the client i had a user backuppc that has access without password to sudo rsync only, i am testing on 2 clients, one client doesnt backup anything from /var, and the other client never ends the backup( 250GB), th

[BackupPC-users] rsync-bpc claims that "file has vanished", but tries to download it over and over again

2019-07-29 Thread Alexander Kobel
Dear all, I just noticed that one of two virtually identical BackupPC instances, both backing up the same host (my email server), reports for a couple weeks that some files vanished - and they are. So why does it insist on trying to download it over and over again? In the error log of server 1 (

Re: [BackupPC-users] rsync-bpc claims that "file has vanished", but tries to download it over and over again

2019-07-29 Thread Alexander Kobel
Hi, On 29.07.19 18:30, Pierre-Yves Bonnetain-Nesterenko wrote: > On 29/07/2019 17:49, Alexander Kobel wrote: >> Any ideas about what could be the culprit? > > Looks like the « zombie files » bug which was corrected by last update > of BPC. huh. My google-fu fails me here... Would that be "remove

Re: [BackupPC-users] BackupPC never ends

2019-07-29 Thread Craig Barratt via BackupPC-users
Could your backup be trying to backup large virtual or sparse files, eg, in /proc or /var/wtmp? Craig On Mon, Jul 29, 2019 at 4:48 AM Mariano Sanfilippo wrote: > Hello, i have connected backuppc to my client server through ssh keys and > rsync, on the client i had a user backuppc that has acc

Re: [BackupPC-users] rsync-bpc claims that "file has vanished", but tries to download it over and over again

2019-07-29 Thread Craig Barratt via BackupPC-users
Yes, that bug is fixed in the latest versions of BackupPC (4.3.1) and rsync_bpc (3.1.2.1). It sounds like you have the latest BackupPC, but you will need to upgrade to the latest rsync_bpc. Craig On Mon, Jul 29, 2019 at 12:29 PM Alexander Kobel wrote: > Hi, > > On 29.07.19 18:30, Pierre-Yves B