Interesting. I removed /var/lib/dpkg, and it hung at a different point. I tried umounting and fscking the filesystem, and it came back clean (reiserfs).
No corruptions found Remounted, and ran again, and it hung again. I guess I'll try rebooting (to clear otu the 18 zombie backuppc_dump processes) and maybe clear out all of the backups stored for this server (since I migrate them off of the box anyway) and see what happens. --b On Wed, Nov 10, 2010 at 9:51 AM, B. Alexander <stor...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Wed, Nov 10, 2010 at 9:22 AM, Tyler J. Wagner <ty...@tolaris.com> wrote: > >> One thing I do to identify a file causing problems with a backup is to >> use the "tree" command (see your package manager) on the running backup: >> >> cd /var/lib/backuppc/pc/HOSTNAME >> tree NEW >> >> The last file will be the file currently backing up. > > Thanks Tyler. Its interesting, because the last file showing backing > up is updates (as in /var/lib/dpkg/updates) which is empty. I wonder > if it is because it is empty...This hasn't been an issue in the past, > unless the top level directory requested to be backed up is > empty...Then backuppc would throw up on its shoes... > > Yep. Its been hung on this directory for about 15 minutes. > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ The Next 800 Companies to Lead America's Growth: New Video Whitepaper David G. Thomson, author of the best-selling book "Blueprint to a Billion" shares his insights and actions to help propel your business during the next growth cycle. Listen Now! http://p.sf.net/sfu/SAP-dev2dev _______________________________________________ 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/
