On Fri, Dec 5, 2008 at 8:47 AM, Bowie Bailey <Bowie_Bailey AT buc DOT com> 
wrote:
> David Rees wrote:
>> I've got one server that all it does is back itself up that gives this
>> error. It started out only occasionally failing, but now I can't
>> complete a full backup without it bailing out with
>>
>> I've ruled out ssh by invoking rsync directly, and when that failed
>> with the same exact error, I tried tar which also died with a similar
>> message.  Running the backup from the command line didn't reveal any
>> additional interesting error messages. It's like something is breaking
>> pipes on the machine after a random amount of time.
>>
>> I am very confused by this one.... but have seen other similar
>> reports.
>
> When I had this problem, it was always a particular file that was
> causing it.  Take a look at the log and find the last file referenced
> before it stopped.  I fixed the problem by either excluding the file
> from the backup or, in one case, creating a separate backup for the
> directory containing the file.

That's just it, it doesn't stop at the same file - it stops at
different spots on each try. Which is why I'm baffled...

It doesn't seem like it's necessarily a BackupPC or rsync issue, it
seems more like a kernel issue to me (Fedora 9, latest kernel).

-Dave

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