On Thu, Feb 12, 2009 at 05:44:33PM +0100, Matthias Meyer wrote:
> Sometimes my backups abort with different failures.
> Anybody know the meaning of/reason for the following failures?
> 1) Aborting backup up after signal ALRM

The backup is taking longer than your $Conf{ClientTimeout}
setting. Once you hit $Conf{ClientTimeout} seconds a sigalarm is sent
to the process, which causes it to exit.

> 2) Backup aborted (Child exited prematurely)

Could be a number of things. IIRC this also shows up when it fails
during the initial startup. If you also see a message similar to
"can't transfer 4 bytes" and you are using the ssh transport mechanism
there is something causing bogus output in the .login or other startup
files for the shell (or ssh config files).

> 3) Aborting backup up after signal INT

Usully I see this when I stop the backup using the web interface.

> 4) Aborting backup up after signal PIPE

I see this as well, not sure what the cause is. Something failed in
the interprocess communication between the processes backuppc spawns.
What failed who knows.


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John Rouillard
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