-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Colin Blower wrote: > Hello everyone, > > I was hoping for a solution to my latest problem and also advice on > my general backup. My latest problem is the backup seems to be > running, but stalled. > > I see the ssh process on the server and the rsync process on the > client, but in the web interface the Xfer PID has only one PID. It > has been this way for ~12 hours. > > Background: I am in the process of backing up a very large (~1TB, > maybe 12million files?) filesystem using backuppc. It is a linux > setup using rsync. Originally the RsyncShareName was '/home', but > that back up failed to transfer any files after an Out of Memory > error and the server killed the backup process. > > I split up the RsyncShareName into > '/home/aa','/home/ab',...,'/home/zy',/home/zz'. Ran another backup, > ran into a filename too long error and removed that weird > directory from the client. > > The latest backup has been running for 24 hours, but for the last > 12 has been stuck on /home/hm. This directory is one of the empty > directories and should not take more than a second to complete. > > Could this be related to the ~400 zombie processes this backup has > created? Also, if i were to stop this full backup, should i try > again with another full or an incremental ? ( i have no full > backups in backuppc ) I would advise you split this into different hosts, where each host has only aa-az or ba-bz etc ... This way, when a share fails to backup for some reason, only a small portion of the overall backup will fail instead of the whole lot. Use ClientNameAlias (from memory) to point hostname-a, hostname-b, hostname-c, etc to hostname.
Also check your number of concurrent backups is low, you don't want multiple backups to the same 'host' at the same time. Some people have written scripts which will check this and cause the backup to fail for the current backup attempt if there is already a backup running. (See the archives/google with keywords concurrent, lock, backup, etc or ask and someone might have a better pointer). Regards, Adam -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iEYEARECAAYFAktxvRsACgkQGyoxogrTyiVm5QCfT6VS9/s4pZYc6PgpW30pGHRh H4gAoI5nRH8wWhwdTvlyIBifWe5fLL0E =NHUe -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ SOLARIS 10 is the OS for Data Centers - provides features such as DTrace, Predictive Self Healing and Award Winning ZFS. Get Solaris 10 NOW http://p.sf.net/sfu/solaris-dev2dev _______________________________________________ BackupPC-users mailing list [email protected] List: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users Wiki: http://backuppc.wiki.sourceforge.net Project: http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/
