OK, so I did a new test today.

1. I did a complete reinstall of backuppc on the server.  I removed all 
existing 
data from /var/lib/backuppc

2. I ran backup manually:
/usr/share/BackupPC/bin/BackupPC_dump -v -f nbecker1

[ blah blah ...]

.: md4 doesn't match: will retry in phase 1; file removed
Out of memory!
Parent read EOF from child: fatal error!
Done: 0 files, 0 bytes
Got fatal error during xfer (Child exited prematurely)
cmdSystemOrEval: about to system /bin/ping -c 1 -w 3 nbecker1
cmdSystemOrEval: finished: got output PING nbecker1.hughes.com (10.32.112.120) 
56(84) bytes of data.
64 bytes from nbecker1.hughes.com (10.32.112.120): icmp_req=1 ttl=63 time=0.819 
ms

--- nbecker1.hughes.com ping statistics ---
1 packets transmitted, 1 received, 0% packet loss, time 0ms
rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 0.819/0.819/0.819/0.000 ms

cmdSystemOrEval: about to system /bin/ping -c 1 -w 3 nbecker1
cmdSystemOrEval: finished: got output PING nbecker1.hughes.com (10.32.112.120) 
56(84) bytes of data.
64 bytes from nbecker1.hughes.com (10.32.112.120): icmp_req=1 ttl=63 time=0.840 
ms

--- nbecker1.hughes.com ping statistics ---
1 packets transmitted, 1 received, 0% packet loss, time 0ms
rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 0.840/0.840/0.840/0.000 ms

CheckHostAlive: returning 0.840
Backup aborted (Child exited prematurely)
Not saving this as a partial backup since it has fewer files than the prior one 
(got 0 and 0 files versus 0)
dump failed: Child exited prematurely


Out of memory, huh?  This machine has 8Gb.  And, this same server has been 
backing up this same client for the last year, until now the client was updated 
to f16.


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