I'm almost positive that BackupPC is not active because I'm backing up about 7 shares per host and when I look in the backuppc data directory to see how much has been backed up I see that not even half of the first share has been backed up. Even if backuppc was running for a day and a night. And what's weird is that I never had this issue before.

On Tue, May 20, 2008 at 10:54 AM, John Rouillard <rouilj-backuppc AT renesys DOT com> wrote:

On Tue, May 20, 2008 at 10:50:07AM -0500, Bruno Faria wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I tried rebooting the server but that still didn't fix the issue.
>
> Could anyone please help me? I really don't know what to do, and I really
> need to get backups going and this user list is the only place that I can
> get help wit BackupPC
>
> On Mon, May 19, 2008 at 2:50 PM, Bruno Faria <brunothebigb AT gmail DOT com> wrote:
>
> > Hi,
> >
> > I've been running backupPC on one server for about a month and half.
> > Everything has been working great so far and I have 2396.72GB worth of full
> > backups. But 3 days ago I noticed that the simultaneous backups for three
> > servers were taking very long to complete. In the BackupPC status page it
> > showed that backups were running but then I ran grep in the server to see
> > BackupPC_dump processes and I found out that the BackupPC_dump process
> > turned into zombie processes. And that's why the backups aren't being
> > completed. Does anyone have any idea on whats causing that and how I may fix
> > it? I'm gonna reboot the server and hope that this fixes that problem, but
> > if anyone ran into that before and has any solutions. please tell me.
> >
> > Thanks for the help!

When backup pc runs with multiple shares on a host, each share is
dumped in order, but the process is left as a zombie child untill ALL
ahreas for the host are dumped.

Are you really sure that there is no active child process that is a
sibling of the zombied processes?

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John Rouillard
System Administrator
Renesys Corporation
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