On 7/15/2010 5:55 PM, Adam Monsen wrote:
> I noticed some issues with rsync+ssh restores fired off from the Web UI.
> I was trying to restore a backup of machine x to machine y. The problem
> seemed most reliably reproducible when transferring more than 10 MB of
> data, and/or when the destination files already existed.
>
> I found a couple of other posts that seemed related:
> http://www.adsm.org/lists/html/BackupPC-users/2008-11/msg00056.html
> http://www.adsm.org/lists/html/BackupPC-users/2010-04/msg00231.html
>
> When I changed XferMethod to "tar", restoring worked.
>
> I'm using backuppc 3.1.0-9ubuntu1 as packaged with Ubuntu 10.04, running
> on a 32-bit Amazon EC2 server. The backup source and destination
> machines are Ubuntu 10.04, running on Amazon 64-bit EC2 servers.
>
> Has anyone looked further into this issue? Even if not, hopefully this
> post will be useful as a workaround for folks running into the same
> issue.

Be sure you aren't just running out of space on the target as rsync will 
construct a new file with a tmp name that must be complete before it 
will rename it to the original, freeing the old space.

-- 
   Les Mikesell
    lesmikesell AT gmail DOT com



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