Kameleon wrote:
> I have an issue with one of my backuppc servers. This server is used to 
> only backup one server and has been doing flawless since it was 
> installed about a week ago. Until last night....
> 
> I checked it this morning to find the above error in the host summary. I 
> did some checking and even manually ran the backup with an strace on the 
> process on the remote server. Every time it would fail. I had a similar 
> issue on my home backuppc server on a few servers and switching them 
> from rsync to rsyncd and changing the needed settings did the trick. Not 
> so much with this one. Here are the last few lines of the log when doing 
> both rsync and rsyncd:
> 
> via rsync:
> 
> 2009-12-02 10:18:04 full backup started for directory /; updating partial #4
> 2009-12-02 10:25:09 Aborting backup up after signal PIPE
> 2009-12-02 10:25:10 Got fatal error during xfer (aborted by signal=PIPE)
> 2009-12-02 10:25:10 Saved partial dump 4
> 
> Via rsyncd:
> 
> 2009-12-02 11:09:00 full backup started for directory main; updating 
> partial #4
> 2009-12-02 11:15:01 Aborting backup up after signal PIPE
> 2009-12-02 11:15:02 Got fatal error during xfer (aborted by signal=PIPE)
> 
> I am at a loss. Something is causing the remote end to fail. I did a 
> little research and found that if doing backup via rsync and ssh it 
> could be a large file causing it, as in over 2GB. I looked in the 
> directories being backed up and there are a few files larger than 2GB 
> that are being backed up. Is there a workaround for this?

It might help if you mentioned the OS involved.  Cygwin/windows should 
be the only thing with low size limits and I think that might be version 
specific.

-- 
   Les Mikesell
     lesmikesell AT gmail DOT com

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