Are you backing up a Windows client?
Under cygwin 1.5 rsync, there used to be problems with it hanging in
mid-backup.
B. Alexander wrote at about 13:40:53 -0500 on Thursday, November 11, 2010:
> It's a reiserfs3 filesystem, which I have been using for as long as I
> have been using backuppc. Unfortuantely, it doesn't use inodes in the
> traditional way. However, when I ran an fsck.reiserfs3, I did not see
> any errors like that that jumped out at me.
>
> Whats more, if it were filling up all its reiser-like inodes, wouldn't
> other backups be failing or hanging? I'm running 15 or 16 other hosts,
> with full backup sizes ranging between 0.3GB and 150GB. All of them
> are doing the normal routine.
>
> The only unique (or semi-unique) things I can think of are a) having
> BackupsDisable set to 1 and requesting backups, but I have done that
> before and it has worked, or b) something to do with backing up the
> backup machine, but I am not backing up the pool, and I have done this
> before as well (albeit on 3.1.0).
>
> I am so out of ideas...:)
> --b
>
> On Thu, Nov 11, 2010 at 12:17 PM, Michael <michael.auckl...@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> >
> > On Fri, Nov 12, 2010 at 4:31 AM, B. Alexander <stor...@gmail.com> wrote:
> >>
> >> Okay, I set the $Conf{PartialAgeMax} to 0, rebooted the box (to clear
> >> out the zombie BackupPC_dump processes and cleared out that partial
> >> backup...
> >>
> >> Ran a full, still hung at the same place. So I stopped that (remember,
> >> at this point, there should not be a partial that it is running
> >> against, unless backuppc still knows about it in the configs, and
> >> PartialAgeMax should eliminate that possibility. I started an
> >> incremental, thinking that may clear out some counters or something.
> >> It hung at 1299 directories, 4323 files.
> >>
> >> The only difference between a full and a partial is that when I run a
> >> full, when the backup hangs, one of the BackupPC_dump process pegging
> >> the cpu at 99%. The partial seems to have the two of them running, but
> >> they seem to have idled and the box quiesces.
> >>
> >> All I can tell you is that it seems to be stopping at a certain point,
> >> rather than some specific file or anything else I can determine. For
> >> instance, if I change the order that the directories get backed up,
> >> the file that it stops on changes. The filesystem is at 41% and the
> >> other backups that this machine is doing all still work.
> >>
> >> Any ideas?
> >>
> >> Thanks,
> >> --b
> >
> > 41% free? size or inodes? check with df -i to see free inodes. ( before
> > runnind that backup and after when stopped )
> >
> > --
> > --
> > Michael
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