Hi again,

I think I've found the cause. $Conf{ClientTimeout} was set to '172000';

Increasing this value should fix it.

Alexandre Joly<aj AT infodev DOT ca>
Network Administrator
Infodev Electronic Designers Intl
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On 17/03/2011 12:07 PM, Alexandre Joly wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have a big host that is backed up using BackupPC. It has 456.21GB of 
> data actually. I want to off-site this data using the archive method 
> to removable USB disk. Until recently, that was not a big deal. The 
> archive process would take up to 45 hours to complete. Data has grown 
> to the point that now the archive is failing at a specific time 
> (process is failing at 2866.7 minutes exacly). I have repeated the 
> process and it will always fail at that specific time. It could be a 
> timeout issue but cannot find any clues in the log file.
>
> Here is my last ArchiveLOG
>
> Contents of file /var/lib/backuppc/pc/offsite-backup/ArchiveLOG.54.z, 
> modified 2011-03-16 09:06:41
>
> Executing: /usr/share/backuppc/bin/BackupPC_archiveHost 
> /usr/share/backuppc/bin/BackupPC_tarCreate /usr/bin/split 
> /usr/bin/par2 dc-01 648 /bin/gzip .gz 0000000 /mnt/tc/2011-03-15 0 *
> Xfer PIDs are now 28320
> Writing tar archive for host dc-01, backup #648 to output file 
> /mnt/tc/2011-03-15/dc-01.648.tar.gz
> exiting after signal ALRM
> Archive failed: aborted by signal=ALRM
>
>
> I am using BackupPC 3.1.0 under Debian Lenny.
>
> Thanks!
>

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