On 5/27/11 8:46 PM, John Goerzen wrote:
>
>>> So far I have only observed the problem with the rsync backend; tar
>>> seems to work.
>>
>> Pardon me if I didn't read and understand your problem sufficiently; but if
>> you exclude the problematic files; will the backup run to completion?
>>
>
> I have yet to discover what they are.  The filesystem in question contains 
> about
> 400,000.  It seems that the backup hangs after it finishes backing up the
> filesystem too, which is particularly strange.  I am trying to separate it out
> into separate jobs to gain some clues but the process of elimination may be 
> long
> and difficult with a data set that large.

Is there any chance the filesystem is corrupted?  Or you have some sparse file 
that becomes huge when you read through it?

-- 
   Les Mikesell
    lesmikesell AT gmail DOT com

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