On Tue, Jul 13, 2010 at 12:12:08PM -0500, Les Mikesell wrote:
> On 7/13/2010 11:53 AM, Brian Mathis wrote:
> > I am trying to use BPC over a WAN, and the connection I'm using seems
> > to be unstable.  The backup is dying every few hours and giving a
> > "Child exited prematurely" message.  I can see a definite pattern in
> > my bandwidth usage going up and down.

I had similar issues that i was never able to solve to my satisfaction.

I worked around them by adding a few cnames for the client host, and configuring
each of them as a backup client, with a specific portion of the filesystem.

if you do this, make sure you have one that includes all by default, and 
excludes the other portions.  that way a new directory will get backed up.

> 
> I think incrementals are discarded on failures but the files copied in a 
> partial full are saved.  However saving them may not save that much time 
> since the full runs will verify the contents against the source anyway. 

it probably won't save time but it might save bandwidth, which might help
in his situation.

danno
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