On Mon, Jan 15, 2013, at 11:15 PM, Adam Goryachev wrote: >>> OK, so that is the right process, and it tells us that it is waiting for >>> something to happen. Is the remote box a windows machine (I think it was >>> but I forget now)? I've had this exact issue with windows rsyncd before >>> when doing backups more than restores, and for me, the solution was one >>> or more of: >>> 1) Upgrade to the newest version of rsync >>> 2) Upgrade to the newest version of ssh and use rsync over ssh or rsyncd >>> over ssh >>> >>> I'm not sure what else I did, but now I use the vss/rsync method which >>> mostly/usually works.... >>> >> Actually, these are both linux boxes. The backuppc box is running squeeze >> (stable). >> But the new machine (temp) is running wheezy (testing). I will try an >> apt-get >> dist-upgrade and see if it works. however, I am leaving now for a 2-day >> business trip, so it won't be until Thursday that I can check. > > I don't think that will help... but it might. One other option is to start > the strace before the restore hangs, then we can > see what it is doing > before it stops working... preferably on both the backuppc and the remote > server.
Was a busy week. Back to trouble shooting this. I did an strace while the restore was in progress. 9397 ? S 1:01 /usr/bin/perl /usr/share/backuppc/bin/BackupPC -d 9403 ? S 4:56 \_ /usr/bin/perl /usr/share/backuppc/bin/BackupPC_trashClean 29925 ? R 0:06 \_ /usr/bin/perl /usr/share/backuppc/bin/BackupPC_restore temp temp restoreReq.29924.0 14634 ? S 0:00 network-admin 14636 ? S 0:00 /usr/sbin/system-tools-backends 14638 ? S 0:00 /usr/bin/perl /usr/share/system-tools-backends-2.0/scripts/SystemToolsBackends.pl -m Platform 24053 ? S 0:00 /usr/bin/rsync --no-detach --daemon --config /etc/rsyncd.conf root@eeebox:~# Actually, the restore finished (but not as far as Backuppc was concerned) by the time I started the e-mail. So I had to run it again. Got screens and screens of stuff too fast to read. Here are the last lines as it finished (but still registered as running with backuppc): select(8, [5], NULL, [5], NULL) = 1 (in [5]) read(5, "\3\334\16\352b\33\2\244\200\1\352\36\22\16\365\340\266!\363\220N\3550\37\36aS\366\250\33\347\336"..., 65536) = 4092 alarm(10000000) = 10000000 select(8, [5], NULL, [5], NULL) = 1 (in [5]) read(5, "\374\17\0\7\201\313\362g\35\362\215r\302j\273\10\25g\262Y\241\372\226\24a\2513#O\253\204@"..., 65536) = 1452 alarm(10000000) = 10000000 select(8, [5], NULL, [5], NULL) = 1 (in [5]) read(5, "\267\177\354\4\367F\6F\31\10\355|\30'\341\372\343`\207K\27\374AT\203u_\352o\30U\317"..., 65536) = 2644 alarm(10000000) = 10000000 select(8, [5], NULL, [5], NULL) = 1 (in [5]) read(5, "\374\17\0\7", 65536) = 4 alarm(10000000) = 10000000 select(8, [5], NULL, [5], NULL) = 1 (in [5]) read(5, "\0\330\7_\0\260\0\330\7_\0\260\0\330\7_\0\260\0\330\7_\0\260\0\330\7_\0\260\0\330"..., 65536) = 4092 alarm(10000000) = 10000000 select(8, [5], NULL, [5], NULL) = 1 (in [5]) read(5, "\374\17\0\7", 65536) = 4 alarm(10000000) = 10000000 select(8, [5], NULL, [5], NULL) = 1 (in [5]) read(5, "\0\330\7_\0\260\0\330\7_\0\260\0\330\7_\0\260\0\330\7_\0\260\0\330\7_\0\260\0\330"..., 65536) = 4092 alarm(10000000) = 10000000 select(8, [5], NULL, [5], NULL) = 1 (in [5]) read(5, "0\t\0\7", 65536) = 4 alarm(10000000) = 10000000 select(8, [5], NULL, [5], NULL) = 1 (in [5]) read(5, "\357\4tV\2\5\376\330\274 S\10\3\241+<\343\350\20\344\3170!\366\365\177j\341\242\20\35z"..., 65536) = 2352 alarm(10000000) = 10000000 select(8, [5], NULL, [5], NULL So, it looked like it was doing lots of "selects" successfully then just stopped. Not sure what those alarm lines are, though. Jon S. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Master Visual Studio, SharePoint, SQL, ASP.NET, C# 2012, HTML5, CSS, MVC, Windows 8 Apps, JavaScript and much more. Keep your skills current with LearnDevNow - 3,200 step-by-step video tutorials by Microsoft MVPs and experts. SALE $99.99 this month only -- learn more at: http://p.sf.net/sfu/learnmore_122912 _______________________________________________ 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/
