Kameleon wrote: > I have an issue with one of my backuppc servers. This server is used to > only backup one server and has been doing flawless since it was > installed about a week ago. Until last night.... > > I checked it this morning to find the above error in the host summary. I > did some checking and even manually ran the backup with an strace on the > process on the remote server. Every time it would fail. I had a similar > issue on my home backuppc server on a few servers and switching them > from rsync to rsyncd and changing the needed settings did the trick. Not > so much with this one. Here are the last few lines of the log when doing > both rsync and rsyncd: > > via rsync: > > 2009-12-02 10:18:04 full backup started for directory /; updating partial #4 > 2009-12-02 10:25:09 Aborting backup up after signal PIPE > 2009-12-02 10:25:10 Got fatal error during xfer (aborted by signal=PIPE) > 2009-12-02 10:25:10 Saved partial dump 4 > > Via rsyncd: > > 2009-12-02 11:09:00 full backup started for directory main; updating > partial #4 > 2009-12-02 11:15:01 Aborting backup up after signal PIPE > 2009-12-02 11:15:02 Got fatal error during xfer (aborted by signal=PIPE) > > I am at a loss. Something is causing the remote end to fail. I did a > little research and found that if doing backup via rsync and ssh it > could be a large file causing it, as in over 2GB. I looked in the > directories being backed up and there are a few files larger than 2GB > that are being backed up. Is there a workaround for this?
It might help if you mentioned the OS involved. Cygwin/windows should be the only thing with low size limits and I think that might be version specific. -- Les Mikesell lesmikes...@gmail.com ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Join us December 9, 2009 for the Red Hat Virtual Experience, a free event focused on virtualization and cloud computing. Attend in-depth sessions from your desk. Your couch. Anywhere. http://p.sf.net/sfu/redhat-sfdev2dev _______________________________________________ BackupPC-users mailing list BackupPC-users@lists.sourceforge.net List: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users Wiki: http://backuppc.wiki.sourceforge.net Project: http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/