Re: Linux Backup strange message.........

IF there are lots of files,  is the machine running out of memory?
Perhaps 'memoryefficientbackup yes' is an option to try?

Does it always abort on exactly the same file? Or sometime in a
particular filesystem? Always when it starts a particular filesystem, or
finishes one?

We had a similar problem here on AIX4.3.3 recently, it turned out to be
an AIX specific issue.

Matt.


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My Linux guru checked the ulimit values and said it was pretty much
unlimited !

What would I check ?  How would I check it ?   What is the realistic
limit
?

I do know that when we navigated down the suspected filesystem dir and
did
backups of individual sub-sub-dirs, the file counts were in the 500K+.

But, we do full incremental daily backups of our mail systems, which
then
scan 12Million files, with no issues (of course, on AIX !).




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A stab in the dark, but is the O/S killing the process because of
resource limits?

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Subject: Linux Backup strange message.........

Trying to backup this RedHat Linux 8 system. Using the latest 5.2.3.0
client.

Doing a DSMC INCR, the backups spins and spins for a
while........backups
stuff............................finished a filesystem and then issues
the
message:

Aborted72GB> [ - ]

Any suggestions/clues/ideas ?


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