On Fri, May 02, 2008 at 07:46:54AM +1000, Adam Goryachev 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?
> 
> On the client machine being backed up, do a ps axf or similar and find
> the pid of the rsync process. Then do a "lsof -p $pid" and it will show
> the files that the rsync process has open. Generally the last one is the
> filename that is currently being transferred. Sometimes you only get
> libraries, but repeat the command over a few minutes and you should it.

To see the open files of a process, I usuallye use
  ls -l /proc/$pid/fd
This doesn't show any libraries...

Tino.

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