As indicated in issue 8363 this may happen when backing-up kinds with very large number of properties (and only when using Google Cloud Storage). The issue will be fixed in an upcoming release.
On Monday, November 26, 2012 1:06:35 AM UTC-8, Marcel Manz wrote: > > Looks like the GAE backup process to Google Storage is in fact broken. We > had issues backing up certain kinds that contain entities with a large > amount of properties (the backup at some point simply stalls and stays > pending without any further activity). > > In the end we could only successfully transfer the data by installing the > python Datastore-Admin remote-api in order to copy the data between our > Java apps. > > See issues: > > http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=8379 > > http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=8363 > > - Marcel > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Google App Engine" group. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msg/google-appengine/-/wFwQFZM7VFgJ. To post to this group, send email to google-appengine@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to google-appengine+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/google-appengine?hl=en.