Hi, I suspect that this could happens when there are lots of file to be saved. In my case, if I run backuppc manually through CLI (with -v option), I noticed failures in folder with lots of email:
.. .. same 660 540/536 1823 naghti/mail/cur/1387049369.H217259P25670. server,S=1823:2,S same 660 540/536 3024 naghti/mail/cur/1387049369.H431931P25698. server,S=3024:2,S same 660 540/536 2689 naghti/mail/cur/1387049369.H471348P25705. server,S=2689:2,S same 660 540/536 2293 naghti/mail/cur/1387049369.H734845P25721. server,S=2293:2,S same 660 540/536 2311 naghti/mail/cur/1387049369.H764540P25726. server,S=2311:2,S same 660 540/536 1879 naghti/mail/cur/1387049369.H891169P25746. server,S=1879:2,S Can't write 33054 bytes to socket Read EOF: Connection timed out Tried again: got 0 bytes Done: 597886 files, 31192258397 bytes Got fatal error during xfer (aborted by signal=PIPE) Backup aborted by user signal Not saving this as a partial backup since it has fewer files than the prior one (got 597886 and 597886 files versus 609791) dump failed: aborted by signal=PIPE Alarm clock root@server:/home/naghti/mail/cur# ls |wc 289193 289193 15205695 >----Messaggio originale---- >Da: Nicolas Göddel <[email protected]> >Data: 24/02/2016 10.30 >A: <[email protected]> >Ogg: [BackupPC-users] Keep getting "Aborting backup up after signal PIPE" > >Hi there, > >I am using Backup PC for backing up data from one RAID device to an other one >within the same PC. So there is only the loop network device involved. > >I backup 2 TB of data (~3502304 inodes) daily from one RAID device to an other. >Every 2 month a full backup is done. But the incremental backups were only >running all 5 to 7 days because of the following error: > >2016-02-24 06:00:01 incr backup started back to 2016-02-18 22:00:01 (backup #44) >for directory benutzer >2016-02-24 06:32:07 Aborting backup up after signal PIPE >2016-02-24 06:32:08 Got fatal error during xfer (aborted by signal=PIPE) > >Then sometimes it works correctly 2 or 3 times in a row, then 5 times not. Here >are some variables you may want to know about my configuration: > >ClientTimeout = 72000 >ClientNameAlias = 127.0.0.1 >XferMethod = rsyncd >ClientCharset = utf-8 >RsyncShareName = benutzer >RSyncUserName = backuppc >RsyncPasswd = ******* >RsyncAuthRequired = True >RSyncCsumCacheVerifyProb = 0.01 >BackupFilesExclude = ['*.pyc', '.AppleDB', '.AppleDesktop', '.AppleDouble', >'.DS_Store', ....] >RsyncdClientPort = 873 >RsyncArgs = ['--numeric-ids', '--perms', '--owner', '--group', '-D', '-- links', >'--hard-links', '--times', '--block-size=2048', '--recursive', '-- timeout=604800'] >RsyncArgsExtra = '' >FullPeriod = 55.97 >FullKeepCnt = 2 >FullKeepCntMin = 1 >FullAgeMax = 90 >IncrPeriod = 0.97 >IncrKeepCnt = 60 >IncrKeepCntMin = 7 >IncrAgeMax = 120 >IncrLevels = [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, >9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 1, 2, 3, >4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14] >IncrFill = False >BackupsDisable = 0 >BlackoutBadPingLimit = 3 >BlackoutGoodCnt = 7 >BlackoutPeriods = [['hourBegin' : 7, 'hourEnd' : 20, 'weekDays' : [1, 2, 3, 4, 5]]] >PartialAgeMax = 3 >RestoreInfoKeepCnt = 10 >ArchiveInfoKeepCnt = 10 >BackupZeroFilesIsFatal = True > >I already read lots of threads and blog posts about that error. I also searched >the mailing list archive. But I was not able to solve the problem with that >help. Most of the people in these threads, blog posts and mails were also not >able to solve their issue. There all had in common that there are backing up >data through the network, but I do it on the same machine. I thought that could >be help figuring out the problem. > >I sometimes had the feeling that the backup runs smoothly if many files were >changed on the file system. If there were not that many changes it came to the >error mentioned above. But this is only an assumption. > >Some more information: >BackupPC Version 3.3.0 >Ubuntu 15.10 x64 >rsync version 3.1.1 >perl version 5.20.2 > >Thank you. > >-- >—————————————————————————————————————————————— >Homepage: http://freakscorner.de >Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/Bastelkeller >Twitter: http://twitter.com/freaks_corner >Youtube: http://youtube.com/tubenic86 > > >------------------------------------------------------------------------------ >Site24x7 APM Insight: Get Deep Visibility into Application Performance >APM + Mobile APM + RUM: Monitor 3 App instances at just $35/Month >Monitor end-to-end web transactions and take corrective actions now >Troubleshoot faster and improve end-user experience. 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