Hello everyone,

I was hoping for a solution to my latest problem and also advice on my
general backup. My latest problem is the backup seems to be running,
but stalled.

I see the ssh process on the server and the rsync process on the
client, but in the web interface the Xfer PID has only one PID. It has
been this way for ~12 hours.

Background: I am in the process of backing up a very large (~1TB,
maybe 12million files?) filesystem using backuppc. It is a linux setup
using rsync. Originally the RsyncShareName was '/home', but that back
up failed to transfer any files after an Out of Memory error and the
server killed the backup process.

I split up the RsyncShareName into
'/home/aa','/home/ab',...,'/home/zy',/home/zz'. Ran another backup,
ran into a filename too long error and removed that weird directory
from the client.

The latest backup has been running for 24 hours, but for the last 12
has been stuck on /home/hm. This directory is one of the empty
directories and should not take more than a second to complete.

Could this be related to the ~400 zombie processes this backup has
created? Also, if i were to stop this full backup, should i try again
with another full or an incremental ? ( i have no full backups in
backuppc )

Thanks,
-Colin B.

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