hbeaumont hbeaumont writes: > I've got a test server set up to backup two servers. Right now backuppc is > running : > > -bash-2.05b# ps axuw | grep "dump" > backuppc 2084 1.4 5.1 508280 24688 ? S 10:00 1:49 /usr/bin/perl > /usr/local/BackupPC/bin/BackupPC_dump host1 > backuppc 2085 0.2 62.7 758832 300944 ? S 10:00 0:20 /usr/bin/perl > /usr/local/BackupPC/bin/BackupPC_dump host2 > backuppc 2128 26.3 8.4 398736 40608 ? S 10:56 17:52 /usr/bin/perl > /usr/local/BackupPC/bin/BackupPC_dump host1 > > It appears to be backing up host1 twice. > > I'm not sure what it is doing. > > The entries that started at 10:00 make sense - backuppc started up and > realized it needed to do the backups. However I don't know > what the entry at 10:56 is for.
With rsync or rsyncd XferMethod, BackupPC_dump forks to create a child processes after the file list has been received. Both processes are used to transfer the differences. Rsync does the same thing when it is receiving files. So you are just seeing the forked child process. Craig ------------------------------------------------------- SF.Net email is Sponsored by the Better Software Conference & EXPO September 19-22, 2005 * San Francisco, CA * Development Lifecycle Practices Agile & Plan-Driven Development * Managing Projects & Teams * Testing & QA Security * Process Improvement & Measurement * http://www.sqe.com/bsce5sf _______________________________________________ BackupPC-users mailing list BackupPC-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/