On 3/4/2010 4:28 PM, Anand Gupta wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have backuppc running for a client, and been facing constant problem
> lately on it.
>
> The server running the backuppc would go under high load (19 - 25 load
> on a quad core xeon, 8gb ram) and i can see multiple
> /usr/local/BackupPC/bin/BackupPC_dump processes. When i try to kill the
> processes, it doesn't work. Trying to reboot via Ctrl+Alt+Del doesn't
> work, the only thing which works is hard reboot.
>
> In the above setup, i am using backuppc with DeltaCopy. I am assuming
> that if the clients shutdown in between of a backup, backuppc would
> automatically after a while disconnect those sessions. Please correct me
> if i am wrong.
>
> Whenever there are a few clients being backed up, i see a lot of cpu
> load (it cud probably be due to disk io as well)
>
> Is there anyone else facing similar issues ? Any help on this would be
> highly appreciated.

How much ram does the server have?  It sounds like the rsync directory 
trees might be filling memory and making the server swap to the point 
that you give up before it is able to respond.  It might help to take 
$Conf{MaxBackups} down to 1 or 2.

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