On Mon, Apr 21, 2008 at 07:30:54AM -0700, David Koski wrote:

> > I've run into a frustrating problem that affects only one of my backup
> > clients.  This particular client is configured as though it is two
> > hosts to backuppc, such that part of its contents go to a compressed
> > pool and the rest goes to an uncompressed pool.  Both of the backups
> > have started failing for reasons that are compeltely eluding me.
> > Here's a slightly-trimmed backup log from one of the failures: (kindly
> > ignore the fact that I'm backing up lame anime videos here...)
> 
> <snip>
> 
> > exiting after signal ALRM
> 
> Maybe it is timing out because the file is too big.  Try increasing the 
> timeout value in config.pl (the name escapes me) but I had to do that when I 
> had a similar problem.

The variable is $Conf{ClientTimeout} and is specified in seconds. signal
ALRM is always a sign of timeout - the backup just takes too long.

HTH,

Tino.

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