I stopped ClamWin and executed a manual full backup and ran into the
same messages of the timeout.

Since getting Craig's email have thought and yea, possibly backing up
music and images is over kill. As these do not change regularly.
However, as I have now encountered this problem I prefer to fix it than
turn my back on it.

If the issue is with SMB, should I then go for rsyncd? If so, then I
have the issue that when I did try rsyncd some months ago, I had the
backup running for hours and hours and hours, when it should have
completed in about one hour in total. This was using rsyncd from the
BackupPC download on cygwin. I read a message from a month or so that
someone recommended using rsyncd from the normal cygwin site. I'll go
back over the postings to see if I can find that one and look at more
closely. Will that resolve the slowness issue?

Peter

----- Original message -----
From: "Peter" <peter_2000 AT users.sourceforge DOT net>
To: "BackupPC User List" <backuppc-users AT lists.sourceforge DOT net>
Date: Tue, 09 Sep 2008 09:55:25 +0800
Subject: Re: [BackupPC-users] Backups getting smaller and missing data

Hi Craig
Thanks for that information. I'm using ClamWin which I thought doesn't
do online scanning, only as per schedules created. Anyway I'll try and
disable the the AV and see if any difference is achieved. At the moment
I want to keep it simple and allow BackupPC to take care of the music
and image directories. 

Thanks
Peter

----- Original message -----
From: "Craig Barratt" <cbarratt AT users.sourceforge DOT net>
To: "Peter" <peter_2000 AT users.sourceforge DOT net>
Cc: "BackupPC User List" <backuppc-users AT lists.sourceforge DOT net>
Date: Mon, 08 Sep 2008 18:35:23 -0700
Subject: Re: [BackupPC-users] Backups getting smaller and missing data 

Peter writes:

> 2008-09-06 16:49:21 Got fatal error during xfer (Call timed out: server
> did not respond after 20000 milliseconds opening remote file
> \Data\Music\iTunes\iTunes Music\Máire Brennan\Maire\03 Oro.mp3
> (\Data\Music\iTunes\iTunes Music\Máire Brennan\Maire\))

This is the well-known timeout in smbclient caused by antivirus
software having to scan large files in the directory.  This
causes smbclient to exit and the backup stops.

Disabling AV should solve the problem; perhaps you can have it
skip your music directories?

Tim Demarest reported several years ago that he could change
the hard-coded timeout value in smbclient to avoid this issue.

Craig

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