On Wed, 2010-11-10 at 08:46 -0500, B. Alexander wrote:
> I checked and apparently it is getting an ALRM signal because it is
> timing out. However, I do not understand why it is taking 20 hours to
> back up this small amount of data. My $Conf{ClientTimeout} = 72000;
> and the data that is being backed up is:
> 
> 49M   /boot
> 142M  /lib/modules
> 148M  /home
> 5.8M  /etc
> 6.7M  /var/backups
> 93M   /var/cache/apt
> 139M  /var/lib/apt
> 25M   /var/lib/dpkg
> 12M   /root
> 15M   /var/log
> 49M   /usr/local

One thing I do to identify a file causing problems with a backup is to
use the "tree" command (see your package manager) on the running backup:

cd /var/lib/backuppc/pc/HOSTNAME
tree NEW

The last file will be the file currently backing up.

Regards,
Tyler

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