Hi,

Terri Kelley wrote on 2008-10-06 00:51:56 -0500 [Re: [BackupPC-users] suffering 
from the backups have stopped syndrome]:
> >>Terri Kelley wrote:
> >>>
> >>>I have had a backup running successfully running of a server for  
> >>>some time. [...]
> >>>However, the backup itself just stays running in the host
> >>>summary.
> >>>[...]
> >>>2008-10-02 20:00:03 full backup started for directory
> >>>/home/backuppc/test (baseline backup #54)
> >>>2008-10-03 16:00:04 Aborting backup up after signal ALRM
> >>>2008-10-03 16:00:05 Got fatal error during xfer (fileListReceive
> >>>failed)
> [...]
> No one have any further ideas on this?

well, yes, a vague one. A while back someone traced something like this down
to a corrupt attrib file. I've been trying to find the time to write a script
that does some sanity checking on attrib files but haven't gotten around to
doing it so far. I'm also not completely sure what could be checked, but a
closer look at the attrib structure should clear some of that up. I'll have a
look at it now, but I can't promise anything (least of all that it's actually
your problem :-). If I don't post anything within 48 hours, I won't for at
least a week ...

Kenneth Porter wrote on 2008-10-01 11:15:05 -0700 [Re: [BackupPC-users] rsyncd 
connection stalled]:
> I notice on the general status page that both clients have PIDs but that 
> the client with network activity has a transfer PID. Does only one client 
> at a time transfer?

No. This seems to be the same (kind of) problem. If I remember correctly, the
rsync child process is forked after the file list has been generated, which
would mean generating the file list does not complete (which is consistent
with what I remember of the report on the corrupt attrib file).

Regards,
Holger

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