Re: [BackupPC-users] BackupPC Archive Failing

[Holger P. <wb...@pa...>]

Hi,

Random wrote on 2015-05-20 05:55:49 -0700 [[BackupPC-users]  BackupPC Archive Failing]:
> [...] an archive started failing. (I run it manually twice a month). I've
> tried to run it twice and it's failed each time with the same error.
> [...]
> Archive failed (Error: /usr/share/backuppc/bin/BackupPC_tarCreate, compress
> or split failed)
> [...]
> The archive runs part way, before failing, so I can see two backup files
> show up on the drive, but not the other 4. Individually, the all 6 machines
> are backing up as usual, except a 20000 millisecond timeout issue

that's actually 20000 seconds, right?

> that happens periodically. (An issue I recently discovered but don't believe
> is related to my current problem). 

It might be. Did the failure occur in the last backup of one of the machines
you are trying to create an archive for? Is it always one machine, or does the
timeout occur for all of the machines? "Periodically" means what exactly? Once
per backup? Once per month? Occasionally?

Does the *archive* always fail on the same machine? Probably so, since you get
archives for two machines. Have you tried to start the archive a third time,
preferrably for different backups of the target machines? Just above the error
message, there should be a line reading "Executing: [details of the command]".
Try running the command quoted manually *as the backuppc user* to see if you
get a more verbose diagnostic.

> What could be going wrong? 

Destination file system full? Hardware error? Corruption of metadata within
the BackupPC pool (as in: attrib file corrupt or data file corrupt in a way
that it will fail to decompress)? Something else less obvious?

Random wrote on 2015-05-22 05:18:23 -0700 [[BackupPC-users]  BackupPC Archive Failing]:
> Anyone?

Your messages didn't reach the mailing list until 2015-06-01, so it was hard
for anyone to answer before that. Probably a problem with Backup Central.

Regards,
Holger