> 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...

I guess I don't care about the zombie, but since the backup never
"completes" something is obviously amiss.  I suspect that once
"complete" maybe TrashClean or something clears away the leftover
processes; there are never zombies after a successful inc or full
backup, only when one hangs...

Maybe the zombie isn't the problem put some parent process never
realizing the subtasks are complete.

thanks
steve

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