Sorry about the slow (and probably unhelpful) reply to this.

On 01/16 05:31 , Kenneth L. Owen wrote:
> Reviewing my logs, a full backup of localhost usually takes about one
> and a half hours with the maximum being close to 2 hours and this is
> when this job is running concurrently with the rsync backups on the
> remote machines.  It has been approximately two hours now with this job
> running exclusively.  I have checked on the machine periodically and it
> does not look like a tar create is in progress.  My terminal session has
> given NO errors.  I'm going to abort the command to see if it get any
> additional information.
> 
> I got the following:
> ----------------------------------------------------------------
> exiting after signal ALRM
> 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: received signal=ALRM
> ----------------------------------------------------------------

While you were running the BackupPC_tarCreate job, did you watch the
processes on the system (using another login of course) using 'ps ax' or
'top' or the like? Was there actually a tar process started?

-- 
Carl Soderstrom
Systems Administrator
Real-Time Enterprises
www.real-time.com

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