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Re: [BackupPC-users] A question about partial backups and fatal errors

2016-03-20 14:15:05
Subject: Re: [BackupPC-users] A question about partial backups and fatal errors
From: Tim Evans <tkevans AT tkevans DOT com>
To: "General list for user discussion, questions and support" <backuppc-users AT lists.sourceforge DOT net>
Date: Sun, 20 Mar 2016 14:14:07 -0400
On 03/20/2016 12:56 PM, Les Mikesell wrote:
> On Sun, Mar 20, 2016 at 8:50 AM, David Raison <david AT tentwentyfour DOT lu> 
> wrote:
>
>> Unfortunately we have still not managed to solve this issue or to even
>> fully understand it. We have determined that indeed the Windows client
>> in this example is sending a RST after a random duration, but we we're
>> not quite certain how to get to the source of this, i.e. how to
>> determine why it is doing so.
>
> Some more guesses:  anti-virus software slowing down access, something
> wrong with the network connection like a full/half duplex mismatch at
> a switch port, or not enough RAM to hold the directory tree loaded by
> rsync forcing disk paging.
>
>>
>> Notwithstanding that we need to solve the problem with the client
>> sending those RSTs, does anyone have any advice on how to get full runs
>> to not start from scratch on each run?
>
> If the data is split into subdirectories, you might try adding one at
> a time and repeating the runs as they complete.
>

Is this related to Christophe Gouinaud <gouinaud AT free DOT fr>'s March 3 post 
(quoted below) about smbclient's output?

New version of samba change output to
   "tar: XXXX Total bytes received: XXXX "
from "tar: dumped ZZZZ files".

See list archives for Christophe's full message, which was a reply to a 
different posting I made about failing backups on Feb. 29.
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