Jake Solid wrote:
> I'm currently using BackupPC to backup few of my servers. I'm only
> having a problem with one of the server getting backed up. There's an
> rsync process that's been running flat out for a long time. It seems
> that BackupPC is trying to backup a directory of rapidly-changing files,
> that should be excluded.
>
> Yesterday, I went to the config.pl and excluded all the possible files
> that are rapidly changing like log files. today the backup was ran again
> and the rsync process started running for a long time.
>
> What will be the best way to track down what is causing this process to
> not stop?
>
> The following is the output of the rsync process:
>
> [root@myserver ~]# ps -aux | grep rsync
> root 6496 0.0 0.0 61144 708 pts/20 S+ 10:50 0:00 grep rsync
> root 29645 85.3 0.2 130972 65912 ? Rs Apr30 759:36
> /usr/bin/rsync --server --sender --numeric-ids --perms --owner --group
> -D --links --hard-links --times --block-size=2048 --recursive
> --checksum-seed=32761 . / <mailto:backuppc-users AT lists.sourceforge DOT net>
>
You could run the rsync command from the command line (find it in the
XferLOG for your host), remove the -q option, and add -v, and watch the
output to see where it hangs. Note that this command should be run from
a temporary directory with enough space to hold your backup files.
When I had unreasonably long backup times, I added --one-file-system to
the rsync arguments because I found I was inadvertently backing up an
nfs mount.
-Rob
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