Andrew Libby wrote:
>> There are a lot of files on the system, and backups take
> quite a while so I upped the timeout to 40 hrs, but
> backups seem to be failing now in under 20 hrs when they
> were failing at the 20 hr mark.
> 
> Any hints or suggestions are greatly apprecaiated.  Other
> info that might be helpful:
> 
> Both client and server are ubuntu 8.04.
> Transport is rsync.  Client has about 6.5 million files.

One possibility is a corrupted file system. Have you done an fsck 
recently?  That's also a lot of files to process in one run.  Rsync 
loads the whole directory tree in RAM and becomes extremely slow if you 
go into swap.

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   Les Mikesell
    lesmikesell AT gmail DOT com

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