On Tue, 2006-07-11 at 00:09, Krsnendu Dasa wrote: > Hi folks, > > I tried emailing the backuppc-users list but my email keeps bouncing, so > I thought I'd try here.
You have to subscribe to the list from the same address you use when posting. > Almost every night I get an email from my backuppc server telling me > that the backup process was aborted due to signal=PIPE. I've tried > upping the timeout to no avail. A timeout would give signal=ALRM. > Some nights the backup works, often it > works when I do it manually, but not always. Anyway, my server is very > wimpy. I'm running a Celeron 466, 256 of RAM and the backup drive is > 78% full. Which of any of that would you think could be causing the > problem? Or do you think this isn't the issue. "top" shows my CPU > pegged at 99% for a lot of the backup. My backups are usually taking > about 650+ minutes when they manage to finish. If you are using rsync as the backup method the entire directory listing is transferred first so there is a certain amount of RAM overhead per file. If you are backing up machines with a huge number of files you might be running out of memory. -- Les Mikesell [EMAIL PROTECTED] ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job easier Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache Geronimo http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=120709&bid=263057&dat=121642 _______________________________________________ BackupPC-users mailing list BackupPC-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/
