Nope. All hosts are Debian Linux, The backup machine runs unstable.
On Thu, Nov 11, 2010 at 4:33 PM, Jeffrey J. Kosowsky
<backuppc AT kosowsky DOT org> wrote:
> 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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