B. Alexander wrote:

> Hey,
> 
> I have a single virtual host (OpenVZ) that never completes a backup.
> Neither incrementals nor fulls complete. I don't see any errors in the
> logs:
> 
> 2010-06-15 18:14:19 incr backup started back to 2010-06-12 07:00:02
> (backup #624) for directory /lib/modules
> 2010-06-15 18:14:19 incr backup started back to 2010-06-12 07:00:02
> (backup #624) for directory /home
> 2010-06-15 18:14:19 incr backup started back to 2010-06-12 07:00:02
> (backup #624) for directory /etc
> 2010-06-15 18:14:21 incr backup started back to 2010-06-12 07:00:02
> (backup #624) for directory /var/backups
> 2010-06-15 18:14:22 incr backup started back to 2010-06-12 07:00:02
> (backup #624) for directory /var/cache/apt
> 2010-06-15 18:14:34 incr backup started back to 2010-06-12 07:00:02
> (backup #624) for directory /var/lib/apt
> 2010-06-15 18:14:43 incr backup started back to 2010-06-12 07:00:02
> (backup #624) for directory /var/lib/dpkg
> 2010-06-16 07:04:24 Aborting backup up after signal INT
> 2010-06-16 07:04:25 Got fatal error during xfer (aborted by user
> (signal=INT)) 2010-06-16 07:04:34 full backup started for directory
> /lib/modules (baseline backup #624)
> 2010-06-16 07:04:35 full backup started for directory /home (baseline
> backup #624)
> 2010-06-16 07:04:41 full backup started for directory /etc (baseline
> backup #624)
> 2010-06-16 07:04:50 full backup started for directory /var/backups
> (baseline backup #624)
> 2010-06-16 07:04:51 full backup started for directory /var/cache/apt
> (baseline backup #624)
> 2010-06-16 07:05:02 full backup started for directory /var/lib/apt
> (baseline backup #624)
> 2010-06-16 07:05:15 full backup started for directory /var/lib/dpkg
> (baseline backup #624)
> 
> /var/lib/dpkg is not empty, and this host has backed up successfully for
> well over a year. The only difference is that I moved it to another
> physical host, however, the other 5 VMs on that machine back up fine.
> 
> Any ideas on where to look for the problem? I have rebooted the VM, and
> the backup still stops at the same point.
> 
> Thanks,
> --b

Maybee you could tell us which backup method you use!?
- you could improve log verbosity on server side
- you could try "watch lsof /var/lib/backuppc"

br
Matthias
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