BackupPC-users

Re: [BackupPC-users] Parity (par2) command running on archives even though set to 0

2012-03-19 18:35:39
Subject: Re: [BackupPC-users] Parity (par2) command running on archives even though set to 0
From: Les Mikesell <lesmikesell AT gmail DOT com>
To: "General list for user discussion, questions and support" <backuppc-users AT lists.sourceforge DOT net>
Date: Mon, 19 Mar 2012 17:34:22 -0500
On Fri, Mar 16, 2012 at 12:30 PM, Timothy J Massey <tmassey AT obscorp DOT com> 
wrote:
>
> While we're on the subject:  what could I do to get BackupPC to realize that 
> par2 is doing its thing even if it doesn't think it's seeing output from the 
> command?  It's certainly spewing plenty of things out while it's working:  it 
> outputs something for every 0.1% of output it processes...  Then I would be 
> able to generate parity for things that take more than 1200 minutes if I 
> wanted to.  (Yes, I know I can change the limit.  I'd like to:  to much 
> *shorter*, by making BackupPC aware that the parity process is still working!)

It's a longstanding bug that some things that should advance the
timeout don't.  I'm not sure if anyone has ever tried to track it down
or if it is just elusive.

-- 
   Les Mikesell
     lesmikesell AT gmail DOT com

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