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Re: [BackupPC-users] Wierd backup problem

2010-11-11 16:36:23
Subject: Re: [BackupPC-users] Wierd backup problem
From: "Jeffrey J. Kosowsky" <backuppc AT kosowsky DOT org>
To: "General list for user discussion, questions and support" <backuppc-users AT lists.sourceforge DOT net>
Date: Thu, 11 Nov 2010 16:33:49 -0500
Are you backing up a Windows client?
Under cygwin 1.5 rsync, there used to be problems with it hanging in
mid-backup.

B. Alexander wrote at about 13:40:53 -0500 on Thursday, November 11, 2010:
 > 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 )
 > >
 > > --
 > > --
 > > Michael
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