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Re: [BackupPC-users] Wierd backup problem

2010-11-11 13:43:30
Subject: Re: [BackupPC-users] Wierd backup problem
From: "B. Alexander" <storm16 AT gmail DOT com>
To: "General list for user discussion, questions and support" <backuppc-users AT lists.sourceforge DOT net>
Date: Thu, 11 Nov 2010 13:40:53 -0500
It's a reiserfs3 filesystem, which I have been using for as long as I
have been using backuppc. Unfortuantely, it doesn't use inodes in the
traditional way. However, when I ran an fsck.reiserfs3, I did not see
any errors like that that jumped out at me.

Whats more, if it were filling up all its reiser-like inodes, wouldn't
other backups be failing or hanging? I'm running 15 or 16 other hosts,
with full backup sizes ranging between 0.3GB and 150GB. All of them
are doing the normal routine.

The only unique (or semi-unique) things I can think of are a) having
BackupsDisable set to 1 and requesting backups, but I have done that
before and it has worked, or b) something to do with backing up the
backup machine, but I am not backing up the pool, and I have done this
before as well (albeit on 3.1.0).

I am so out of ideas...:)
--b

On Thu, Nov 11, 2010 at 12:17 PM, Michael <michael.auckland AT gmail DOT com> 
wrote:
>
>
> On Fri, Nov 12, 2010 at 4:31 AM, B. Alexander <storm16 AT gmail DOT com> 
> wrote:
>>
>> Okay, I set the $Conf{PartialAgeMax} to 0, rebooted the box (to clear
>> out the zombie BackupPC_dump processes and cleared out that partial
>> backup...
>>
>> Ran a full, still hung at the same place. So I stopped that (remember,
>> at this point, there should not be a partial that it is running
>> against, unless backuppc still knows about it in the configs, and
>> PartialAgeMax should eliminate that possibility. I started an
>> incremental, thinking that may clear out some counters or something.
>> It hung at 1299 directories, 4323 files.
>>
>> The only difference between a full and a partial is that when I run a
>> full, when the backup hangs, one of the BackupPC_dump process pegging
>> the cpu at 99%. The partial seems to have the two of them running, but
>>  they seem to have idled and the box quiesces.
>>
>> All I can tell you is that it seems to be stopping at a certain point,
>> rather than some specific file or anything else I can determine. For
>> instance, if I change the order that the directories get backed up,
>> the file that it stops on changes. The filesystem is at 41% and the
>> other backups that this machine is doing all still work.
>>
>> Any ideas?
>>
>> Thanks,
>> --b
>
> 41% free? size or inodes? check with df -i to see free inodes. ( before
> runnind that backup and after when stopped )
>
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> Michael
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