On 4/13/2011 7:24 PM, Manu Poletti wrote:
> We use BackupPC on Ubuntu Hardy to backup a number of Windows XP hosts
> using smb.  It has worked faultlessly for at last 2 years; until a week
> ago when the hosts stopped being backed up. Now none except localhost
> that uses the tar transfer method work.
>
> When A backup runs it seems to stall very soon (a few seconds) after it
> starts. Some files are copied to the temporary directory at
> /var/lib/backuppc/pc/[hostname]/new/   but the pid's show no CPU
> activity after this. The backup seems to stop on a random file each
> time, and using windows "Computer Management" on the host I can see that
> the server has that one file open. After this BackupPC will just sit
> there doing nothing until the ClientTimeout is exceeded (20 hours). Then
> the backup exits with an error reported in the XferLOG "exiting after
> signal ALRM".
>
> I have tried running the smbclient command manually like this:
>
> sudo -u backuppc /usr/bin/smbclient \\\\[hostName]\\wk -U [userName] -N
> -d 10 -c tarmode\ full -Tc backup.tar
>
> This works so I assume its not the smb transport. But after that I am
> stuck. Any suggestions?

Is there an 'on-access' virus scanner on the Windows boxes.  Sometimes 
they will block or slow access to the point that the backup times out.

-- 
   Les Mikesell
   lesmikesell AT gmail DOT com

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