Hi,

What’s your ClientTimeout set to?  20hrs (72000) by any chance?

Kind regards
Wayne Trevena Consultant / Director
Wave IT Consulting Ltd<http://www.witc.co.uk/> Complete IT Solutions Provider

From: Dr. Boris Neubert [mailto:om...@online.de]
Sent: 29 September 2014 19:17
To: BackupPC-users@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: [BackupPC-users] Backup over slow link: endless loop or just missing 
patience?

Hello,

I have a virtual private server hosted at my internet provider. System is 
CentOS 6.5 with BackupPC 3.3.0.

I use it as offsite backup facility for the most important data on my local 
NAS. I partioned the data such that each "host" corresponds to one logical data 
set, like code repository, document storage, etc. of - as I thought - not too 
big size.

The uplink is a slow DSL line with a maximum of 640 kBit/s towards the BackupPC 
server. BackupPC server is connected to NAS via openVPN. Transfer method is 
rsyncd.

Largest data set ("host") so far was about 1 GB. It took a few days to complete 
the first full backup. Since then daily incrementals and weekly fulls run 
smoothly.

Next data set added was my home directory with 15 GB. Attempts to complete the 
first full backup have been lasting 8 days for now. Log says:

2014-09-21 13:04:52 full backup started for directory users-neubert

2014-09-22 22:21:47 Aborting backup up after signal ALRM

2014-09-22 22:21:48 Got fatal error during xfer (aborted by signal=ALRM)

2014-09-22 22:21:48 Saved partial dump 0

2014-09-22 22:22:42 full backup started for directory users-neubert

2014-09-23 18:43:46 Aborting backup up after signal ALRM

2014-09-23 18:43:47 Got fatal error during xfer (aborted by signal=ALRM)

2014-09-23 18:43:47 full backup started for directory users-neubert

2014-09-24 15:03:35 Aborting backup up after signal ALRM

2014-09-24 15:03:36 Got fatal error during xfer (aborted by signal=ALRM)

2014-09-24 15:03:37 full backup started for directory users-neubert

2014-09-25 11:24:20 Aborting backup up after signal ALRM

... (more such stanzas skipped) ...

2014-09-29 06:40:06 Got fatal error during xfer (aborted by signal=ALRM)

2014-09-29 06:40:06 full backup started for directory users-neubert

What bothers me are the fatal errors (signal= ALRM) in combination with the 
last lines of the "Last bad XferLOG" (right after the list of transferred 
files):

Child is aborting

Done: 27503 files, 16082763640 bytes

Got fatal error during xfer (aborted by signal=ALRM)

Backup aborted by user signal

Not saving this as a partial backup since it has fewer files than the prior one 
(got 27503 and 27503 files versus 27628)

Does this mean that I am actually stuck in an endless loop because there is a 
certain point in time or amount of data beyond which the backup does not go?

What are the reasons for the aborts or where do I need to look? They are not 
related to regular or irregular disconnects and IP reassignments. That I know 
from the DSL connection logs.

Kind regards
Boris
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