Thanks a lot for that tip, Dan. I'll try with -v and see what happens.
Dan Pritts <[EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] edu> cc: backuppc-users@lists.sourceforge.net bcc: 02/12/2006 09:42 Subject: Re: [BackupPC-users] Can't fork at [...]/BackupPC/lib/BackupPC/Lib.pm line PM 1168 On Thu, Feb 09, 2006 at 04:22:51PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Executing DumpPreUserCmd: /opt/local/BackupPC/bin/preDump.sh burdata01lx > /corpus_snapshot > Running: /usr/bin/ssh -q -x -l root burdata01lx /usr/bin/rsync --server > --sender --numeric-ids --perms --owner --group --devices --links --times > --block-size=2048 --recursive . /corpus_snapshot/ > Xfer PIDs are now 16351 > Read EOF: Connection reset by peer > Has anybody encountered this before? All "clients" are aliased to the same > host, and this is the only one that fails in that way, so I don't think > it's an SSH error, as suggested in one post in January (but feel free to > prove me wrong). could be an ssh error. start sshd on the backup client with "sshd -d" to see what's happening from the ssh server's perspective, and/or add "-v" to your ssh command line. it'll show you what's going on. > I see a high memory usage on the client at the time the backup dies. I > added a bunch of files recently to that partition. Could this be related to > the usual rsync memory usage issues with large numbers of files? All other probably. watch the rsync memory usage on the client with "top" danno ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Do you grep through log files for problems? Stop! Download the new AJAX search engine that makes searching your log files as easy as surfing the web. DOWNLOAD SPLUNK! http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=103432&bid=230486&dat=121642 _______________________________________________ BackupPC-users mailing list BackupPC-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/