Sorry if you've already covered this issue, but I'm assuming this backup takes a very long time over a 1mbps ADSL connection. From what I remember, BackupPC has a timeout on backups defined and will stop a backup if it lasts longer then that defined time. (I believe you can modify this time interval but I'm not sure how right now). How long is the 13gig backup going for before it fails? Is it always the same time interval? Or does it randomly change?
If the time interval is random then the problem probably lies in the connection between locations. The connection reset by peer issues you were getting during the rsync operation seem to indicate that there are connection issues between the machines. I'm not too familiar with using rsync over such a slow connection with large amounts of data, but I'd assume that it is not normal to get connection reset by peer messages. It seems to me that the problem doesn't lie in BackupPC, but I'm just a lowly user not a developer so I may not be right ;)
-TristanOn 12/11/05, Tarjei Huse <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On Sun, 2005-12-11 at 13:07 -0500, Rick DeNatale wrote:> On 12/11/05, Tarjei Huse <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:>> > I just thought I'd report back that increasing disk size didn't solve
> > the problem - allthought it was needed :-). Also, it prooved the> > importance of running stuff like this on lvm .>> How MANY files are in the directory (or directory tree) you are having
> troubles with?> Rsync's memory utilization is sensitive to the number of files it> maintains a RAM data structure with information about the files. It> needs about 100 bytes per file.
The share contains 40 000 files, so that shouldn't be a problem.> http://samba.anu.edu.au/rsync/FAQ.html#4>> This rsync troubleshooting page has some more things you might want to
> try. http://samba.anu.edu.au/rsync/issues.htmlHmm, ok will do. Thanks.What I am wondering about is if it is possible to get a bit moreinformation out of BackupPC wrt why a signal is sent. I think that would
help. For example I am wondering why I just get "process killed by usersignal", is it possible to log a bit more from the process sending thesignal?Also, BackupPC starts up two processes when a backup starts, but I
always get one of them defunct. Like this:[ssh] backuppc 6478 0.0 0.0 00 ?Z20:41 0:00[BackupPC_dump] Why is one of the processes just defunct?
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