Thanks for sharing Stefan.

Unfortunately, I don't think either of those is causing an issue here. 
Both the remote and local sites have T1 connections each with a static 
IP. I recently did an fsck of the backup client's filesystem in question 
(I did it on the master client - any fsck changes would be replicated to 
the slave client via drbd - only one client node, the master in the 
pacemaker cluster, is allowed to have the filesystem mounted at a time) 
- should I also do an fsck of the backup server?

The odd thing here is 5-10 other clients continue to backup without 
errors while this one in particular exhibits what I have previously 
described. It never finishes the first (first here can mean the very 
first or original backup after the server was installed OR the first 
backup taken after backups haven't been taken for a week or two but are 
then resumed) remote backup, and it isn't even stopped by the 
clientTimeout. However, if I physically move the remote backup server 
local and take a full backup of the client in question, subsequent 
remote backups will succeed after moving the remote backup server back 
to the remote location.

Please share any thoughts you might have on what could be done to 
determine the cause here to find a solution. TIA

Scott

On 2/11/2011 1:15 AM, Stefan Peter wrote:
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> Am 11.02.2011 01:29, schrieb Scott Saunders:
>> I let the most recent backup 'finish' on its own. It becomes a partial
>> backup in the host backup summary page with the following error:
>>
>> Read EOF:
>> Tried again: got 0 bytes
>> finish: removing in-process file path/to/filename.ext
>> Can't write 4 bytes to socket
>> Child is aborting
>> Done: 229002 files, 82767774899 bytes
>> Got fatal error during xfer (aborted by signal=PIPE)
>> Backup aborted by user signal
>>
> I had this problem in several times yet. In one case, it was caused by
> the remote ADSL line changing the TCP/IP address during the backup.
> Switching this line to a fixed IP fixed this for me. In all other cases,
> a fsck of the file system in question fixed the issue.
>
> Regards
>
> Stefan Peter
>
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