On Tue, Aug 12, 2008 at 08:15:41PM -0400, Alan McKay wrote:
> > I wouldn't know how others on this list could blindly wade through a
> > 100 GB compressed logfile on your machine.
> 
> I wasn't suggesting that for a moment.  I'm saying there must be
> someone here who can tell me what to grep for in terms of error
> messages.
> 
> > Have you tried
> > taking a look at the contents of this file using something like less
> > (I wouldn't try to open it in a text editor)? Maybe the first look at
> > the contents reveals the problem.
> 
> Yes.   Reams and reams and reams of stuff that looks benign to my
> untrained eyes.  "Got file"  "Receiving" "Sending" and so on.  And on.
>  And on.
> 
> Then I tried grepping out all lines with "Got file".  Then in addition
> to that all lines with "Receiving".  Then in addtion to that all with
> "Sending empty csums", then "pollChild".   And still there are reams
> and reams and reams of data that look benign to my untrained eyes.

What's your XferLogLevel ($Conf{XferLogLevel}) setting? That sounds a
lot like output from a high debugging level.

Try reducing the logging level to 1 or 2 and rerunning the backup.

-- 
                                -- rouilj

John Rouillard
System Administrator
Renesys Corporation
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