Hi Carl,
As I said in my opening problem description, I'm computer literate, but
not very Linux knowledgeable. Before I retired, my employer used
Windows and since I networked into the system, I had to comply with
their rules. Now I run Linux as my primary boot and resort to Windows
only when I don't know how to get it done in Linux.
I have been running personal computers since 1980 and am still
supporting these vintage machines! My original build is still running.
I know there are many facilities to monitor processes to get data to
better understand how the system is working, but I don't command these
tools, as yet... BUT, I am a good student!
I'm not familiar with the ps command but will probably get more familiar
with it tomorrow!
When I ran the localhost backup job in manual, it reported that it was
starting with all of the right log entries, etc., but the overall system
observation did not support a tar create in progress. I run gkrellm
system monitor for CPU, processes, power supply, and disk activity on
the various mounts. None of this supported a tar backup in progress.
The log for the test was ...
2012-01-16 15:28:10 full backup started for directory /home
2012-01-16 17:27:35 Aborting backup up after signal INT
This backup process has been troublesome ever since I set up using the
sudoers method. When I first set it up, all looked good then I started
getting errors...
2011-03-24 01:00:02 incr backup started back to 2011-03-17 01:00:02
(backup #234) for directory /home
2011-03-24 01:00:28 incr backup 237 complete, 1728 files, bytes, 3 xferErrs (
bad files, bad shares, 3 other)
2011-03-24 01:00:28 removing incr backup 230
2011-03-25 01:00:01 full backup started for directory /home
2011-03-25 01:37:11 Got fatal error during xfer (Tar exited with error 512 ()
status)
2011-03-25 01:37:17 Backup aborted (Tar exited with error 512 () status)
2011-03-25 01:37:17 Saved partial dump 238
Then it started working again...
2011-08-08 06:00:01 incr backup started back to 2011-08-02 00:00:01 (backup
#270) for directory /home/ken
2011-08-08 06:00:04 Got fatal error during xfer (Tar exited with error 512 ()
status)
2011-08-08 06:00:09 Backup aborted (Tar exited with error 512 () status)
2011-08-15 01:00:01 removing incr backup 264
2011-08-15 01:00:04 full backup started for directory /home/ken
2011-08-15 01:42:40 full backup 272 complete, 14079 files, 0 bytes, 0 xferErrs
(0 bad files, 0 bad shares, 0 other)
2011-08-15 01:42:40 removing full backup 263
All seemed to be fine until I started getting current error ...
2012-01-22 05:00:01 full backup started for directory /home
2012-01-22 05:00:03 Got fatal error during xfer (No files dumped for share
/home)
2012-01-22 05:00:08 Backup aborted (No files dumped for share /home)
2012-01-22 06:00:01 full backup started for directory /home
2012-01-22 06:00:03 Got fatal error during xfer (No files dumped for share
/home)
2012-01-22 06:00:08 Backup aborted (No files dumped for share /home)
The home directory is not very critical mostly because I don't trust it and
copy all critical files to the data server which get backed up via rsync and
seems to be working just fine.
But I fear there may be some underlying problem that may put the entire
system at risk.
Later, -- ken
On Mon, 2012-01-23 at 14:44 -0500, Carl Wilhelm Soderstrom wrote:
> 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?
>
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