Interesting. I removed /var/lib/dpkg, and it hung at a different
point. I tried  umounting and fscking the filesystem, and it came back
clean (reiserfs).

No corruptions found

Remounted, and ran again, and it hung again. I guess I'll try
rebooting (to clear otu the 18 zombie backuppc_dump processes) and
maybe clear out all of the backups stored for this server (since I
migrate them off of the box anyway) and see what happens.

--b

On Wed, Nov 10, 2010 at 9:51 AM, B. Alexander <storm16 AT gmail DOT com> wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 10, 2010 at 9:22 AM, Tyler J. Wagner <tyler AT tolaris DOT com> 
> wrote:
>
>> 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.
>
> Thanks Tyler. Its interesting, because the last file showing backing
> up is updates (as in /var/lib/dpkg/updates) which is empty. I wonder
> if it is because it is empty...This hasn't been an issue in the past,
> unless the top level directory requested to be backed up is
> empty...Then backuppc would throw up on its shoes...
>
> Yep. Its been hung on this directory for about 15 minutes.
>

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