On Fri, Jul 1, 2011 at 11:56 AM, Aleksey Tsalolikhin
<atsaloli.tech AT gmail DOT com> wrote:
> I just noticed one of my servers has not had a successful full backup
> for over 60 days.  Incremental backups still succeed.
>
> Full backups fail after 2-4 hours with:
>
>  Got fatal error during xfer (Child exited prematurely)
>
> Right now I've got a full backup running (according to the Web UI)
> but if I look on the server, I can see the ssh process that is the
> child of the BackupPC dump process is defunct:
>
> ps shows:
>
> backuppc  PID  PPID  0  Jun30  ?  00:00:03 [ssh] <defunct>
>
> So I know this full backup will fail as well once BackupPC realizes
> the child is dead.
>
> BackupPC version 3.1.0 on CentOS 5.5 (64-bit)
>
>
> I'm going to update to CentOS 5.6 and restart the full backup,
> and put an strace on the ssh process...  trying to figure out
> why it goes defunct.

I've updated to CentOS 5.6.

I'm running an strace on both SSH's processes (on the BackupPC
server and the BackupPC client).    I also added an strace on the
rsync on the BackupPC client.

Let me know if you have any other suggestions, please...

Best,
-at

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