BackupPC-users

Re: [BackupPC-users] meaning of different "Aborting backup" failure messages

2009-02-13 18:12:25
Subject: Re: [BackupPC-users] meaning of different "Aborting backup" failure messages
From: Tino Schwarze <backuppc.lists AT tisc DOT de>
To: backuppc-users AT lists.sourceforge DOT net
Date: Sat, 14 Feb 2009 00:11:06 +0100
On Fri, Feb 13, 2009 at 11:40:13PM +0100, Matthias Meyer wrote:

> > 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.
> 
> Did this occur also if data wil be transmitted between client and server or
> only if no data received until $Conf{ClientTimeout} seconds?

It occurs no matter whether data is transferred. The ClientTimeout is a
hard timeout. Either the backup finishes before or it is aborted.

Bye,

Tino.

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