You didn't say if it appeared as though data was coming across the wire
or not.
This is possibly the culprit:
$Conf{ClientTimeout} = 72000;
Timeout in seconds when listening for the transport program's
(smbclient, tar etc) stdout. If no output is received during this time,
then it is assumed that something has wedged during a backup, and the
backup is terminated.
Note that stdout buffering combined with huge files being backed up
could cause longish delays in the output from smbclient that
BackupPC_dump sees, so in rare cases you might want to increase this
value.
Despite the name, this parameter sets the timeout for all transport
methods (tar, smb etc).
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Peter
Nearing
Sent: Thursday, March 15, 2007 3:50 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: [BackupPC-users] Problems with backuppc
Hey,
I'm Peter, and I have been using backuppc for about 8 months now, and
I am an addict.... oops, wrong open.... anyway....
I am a network admin for a prof. at Queens University, and I have 8
computers that I backup using backuppc, using rsync over ssh. I have
recently ran into a problem with backuppc failing while backing up one
of my desktops, giving me the reason of sig ALARM. I was wondering if
anyone else here has had this problem, and if so, what it's caused by.
The xfer seems to start fine, but after about 5 hours, it fails...
originally I thought the problem maybe due to a partially corrupt
filesystem, since I am using xfs, and it does crap out from time to
time, but it would seem as though that isn't the case, as I have done a
fsck on all the drives, and repaired the one error I got on the client.
I tried the backup again, and again it failed. So now, I'm not so sure
as to the problem. If anyone has any suggestions, or knows why backuppc
would be getting a sig alrm, it would be greatly appreciated.
Oh and a huge thanks to the guys who made this great peice of software.
Peter N.
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