Sorry about the slow (and probably unhelpful) reply to this. On 01/16 05:31 , Kenneth L. Owen wrote: > Reviewing my logs, a full backup of localhost usually takes about one > and a half hours with the maximum being close to 2 hours and this is > when this job is running concurrently with the rsync backups on the > remote machines. It has been approximately two hours now with this job > running exclusively. I have checked on the machine periodically and it > does not look like a tar create is in progress. My terminal session has > given NO errors. I'm going to abort the command to see if it get any > additional information. > > I got the following: > ---------------------------------------------------------------- > exiting after signal ALRM > 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: received signal=ALRM > ----------------------------------------------------------------
While you were running the BackupPC_tarCreate job, did you watch the processes on the system (using another login of course) using 'ps ax' or 'top' or the like? Was there actually a tar process started? -- Carl Soderstrom Systems Administrator Real-Time Enterprises www.real-time.com ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Try before you buy = See our experts in action! The most comprehensive online learning library for Microsoft developers is just $99.99! Visual Studio, SharePoint, SQL - plus HTML5, CSS3, MVC3, Metro Style Apps, more. Free future releases when you subscribe now! http://p.sf.net/sfu/learndevnow-dev2 _______________________________________________ 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/
