OK, so I did a new test today. 1. I did a complete reinstall of backuppc on the server. I removed all existing data from /var/lib/backuppc
2. I ran backup manually: /usr/share/BackupPC/bin/BackupPC_dump -v -f nbecker1 [ blah blah ...] .: md4 doesn't match: will retry in phase 1; file removed Out of memory! Parent read EOF from child: fatal error! Done: 0 files, 0 bytes Got fatal error during xfer (Child exited prematurely) cmdSystemOrEval: about to system /bin/ping -c 1 -w 3 nbecker1 cmdSystemOrEval: finished: got output PING nbecker1.hughes.com (10.32.112.120) 56(84) bytes of data. 64 bytes from nbecker1.hughes.com (10.32.112.120): icmp_req=1 ttl=63 time=0.819 ms --- nbecker1.hughes.com ping statistics --- 1 packets transmitted, 1 received, 0% packet loss, time 0ms rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 0.819/0.819/0.819/0.000 ms cmdSystemOrEval: about to system /bin/ping -c 1 -w 3 nbecker1 cmdSystemOrEval: finished: got output PING nbecker1.hughes.com (10.32.112.120) 56(84) bytes of data. 64 bytes from nbecker1.hughes.com (10.32.112.120): icmp_req=1 ttl=63 time=0.840 ms --- nbecker1.hughes.com ping statistics --- 1 packets transmitted, 1 received, 0% packet loss, time 0ms rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 0.840/0.840/0.840/0.000 ms CheckHostAlive: returning 0.840 Backup aborted (Child exited prematurely) Not saving this as a partial backup since it has fewer files than the prior one (got 0 and 0 files versus 0) dump failed: Child exited prematurely Out of memory, huh? This machine has 8Gb. And, this same server has been backing up this same client for the last year, until now the client was updated to f16. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ All the data continuously generated in your IT infrastructure contains a definitive record of customers, application performance, security threats, fraudulent activity, and more. Splunk takes this data and makes sense of it. IT sense. And common sense. http://p.sf.net/sfu/splunk-novd2d _______________________________________________ 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/