[BackupPC-users] Backups fail on some XP laptops after running for hours

Installed BackupPC a few months ago. After creating all users using one as a 
template for the rest I would think they'd all behave the same. Tested the 
rsync on all the laptops initially and had pretty good results.

About a week later my bosses laptop, scheduled for an incremental, began 
backing up at 10:00 am and was still running when she shutdown her laptop at 
7:00 pm. Obviously the backup failed. The previous days incrementals lasted 
only 45 minutes or so. 

>>From that time onward the backups begin and just keep running until the user 
>>powers off. This is occurring on at least three laptops now. 

It seems like rsync begins very strong as the CPU utilization for that users 
process runs up to 25% on the Suse 10 server, then after about 30~45 minutes it 
gradually throttles back almost to zero.

I've tried excludes of the pagefile, ntuser.dat, system volume information, etc 
with no change. Updated to a newer rsync than what came with 
cygwin-rsyncd-2.6.8_0.zip on my bosses laptop...

No SSH, just running on port 873, firewall has the port opened via the netsh 
firewall commands by running service.bat from the package mentioned above. 

It almost seems like rsync.exe is stalling on the client laptops. It's process 
shows little CPU utilization, naturally, when time runs onward it decreases to 
nearly zero.

I could REALLY use some help and or pointers to get this back to the peppy 
speed it once used to have. 

Your thoughts and suggestions?

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