BackupPC-users

Re: [BackupPC-users] BackupPC_dump stalls and leave zombie process

2009-07-30 14:21:56
Subject: Re: [BackupPC-users] BackupPC_dump stalls and leave zombie process
From: Filipe Brandenburger <filbranden AT gmail DOT com>
To: "General list for user discussion, questions and support" <backuppc-users AT lists.sourceforge DOT net>
Date: Thu, 30 Jul 2009 14:16:23 -0400
Hi,

On Thu, Jul 30, 2009 at 13:39, Steve<leperas AT gmail DOT com> wrote:
> Wondering if anything has had time to think about this question.  I am
> still having the issue...

I don't know about stalling, but leaving zombie processes is something
"normal". As far as I can tell, it happens when you dump multiple
directories or drives from the same machine. BackupPC_dump will fork
one process to dump the first directory, then one process to dump the
second one, and so on, but it will "reap" the children processes all
at once at the end. I don't know if this happens with "rsync" only
(that's how I use it and see it here) or with the other xfer methods
("tar", "smb") as well...

HTH,
Filipe

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