BackupPC-users

Re: [BackupPC-users] Backup run aborts without notice

2010-06-15 12:01:04
Subject: Re: [BackupPC-users] Backup run aborts without notice
From: Les Mikesell <lesmikesell AT gmail DOT com>
To: backuppc-users AT lists.sourceforge DOT net
Date: Tue, 15 Jun 2010 10:59:34 -0500
On 6/15/2010 10:25 AM, Peter Thomassen wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I've got a strange problem with BackupPC. For some days now, the client
> machine (the one to be backed up) was down. Now I got it running again.
>
> I issued a full backup via the BackupPC web interface, based on the last
> incremental backup (this is that LOG.062010 says to me).
>
> After 33 minutes of working, the backup just aborts without any notice
> (even no error message in the log file). I decompressed XferLOG.z (which
> creates one line per file), and the last line of this file ends in the
> middle of a filename!
>
> Something went wrong, apparently. Where can I start debugging? I am
> using the Debian package, version 3.1.0.

This actually sounds like a server side problem since a client 
disconnect should have been logged.  Do you have plenty of disk space 
and RAM?  Does dmesg show anything odd?  If that looks OK, try an fsck 
on the client in case its earlier problem caused filesystem corruption.

-- 
   Les Mikesell
    lesmikesell AT gmail DOT com

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