BackupPC Server:
---------------
    RHEL6.2
    BackupPC-3.2.1-7.el6.x86_64  (EPEL)
    rsync-3.0.6-5.el6_0.1.x86_64
    /var/lib/BackupPC is an NFS mount point (i.e. the BackupPC server is
an NFS client)
mounted via /etc/fstab entry:
nfsserver.example.comoh :/mnt/backup/gs-444-e10285
/var/lib/BackupPC        nfs exec,suid,rw,rsize=8192,wsize=8192 1 1

rsync --version
rsync  version 3.0.6  protocol version 30
Copyright (C) 1996-2009 by Andrew Tridgell, Wayne Davison, and others.
Web site: http://rsync.samba.org/
Capabilities:
    64-bit files, 64-bit inums, 64-bit timestamps, 64-bit long ints,
    socketpairs, hardlinks, symlinks, IPv6, batchfiles, inplace,
    append, ACLs, xattrs, iconv, symtimes


NFS server:
---------------
    RHEL4.9
    rsync-3.0.7-1.el4.rf (from dag repo):
rsync --version
rsync  version 3.0.7  protocol version 30
Copyright (C) 1996-2009 by Andrew Tridgell, Wayne Davison, and others.
Web site: http://rsync.samba.org/
Capabilities:
    64-bit files, 64-bit inums, 32-bit timestamps, 64-bit long ints,
    socketpairs, hardlinks, symlinks, IPv6, batchfiles, inplace,
    append, ACLs, xattrs, iconv, no symtimes


I'm trying to backup localhost.  The first backup I ran was successful. 
This was my localhost.pl config:

$Conf{RsyncClientCmd} = '/usr/bin/sudo $rsyncPath $argList+';
$Conf{RsyncClientRestoreCmd} = '/usr/bin/sudo $rsyncPath $argList+';
$Conf{RsyncArgs} = [
  '--numeric-ids',
  '--perms',
  '--owner',
  '--group',
  '-D',
  '--links',
  '--hard-links',
  '--times',
  '--block-size=2048',
  '--recursive',
  '--exclude',
  '/var/lib/BackupPC'
];

Of course I have setup sudo for backuppc to run rsync with no password.

Then I decided that I wanted to make sure the metadata was backed up, so
after a little googling it seems that adding --acls and --xattrs to the
rsync options would do it:

$Conf{RsyncArgs} = [
  '--numeric-ids',
  '--perms',
  '--owner',
  '--group',
  '-D',
  '--links',
  '--hard-links',
  '--times',
  '--block-size=2048',
  '--recursive',
  '--acls',
  '--xattrs',
  '--exclude',
  '/var/lib/BackupPC'
];

However, now when a backup runs, it times out after 20 hours with signal
ALRM; e.g:

2012-05-19 11:00:12 incr backup started back to 2012-05-16 14:50:08 (backup #0) 
for directory /
2012-05-20 07:00:12 Aborting backup up after signal ALRM
2012-05-20 07:00:13 Got fatal error during xfer (aborted by signal=ALRM)

I can see that when the backup is running that $TopDir/pc/localhost/new
is not growing -- it stays at 8K during the entire 20 hours.

I took out the two new options and ran another incr backup, it seems to
be working fine (it's running now, and "$TopDir/pc/localhost/new" is
growing in size)

Suggestions, please?

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