Re: [BackupPC-users] exiting after signal ALRM - Backup never completes

[Craig B. <cr...@at...>]

> I've just installed BackupPc on a spare PC with a extra disk, and i was
> trying to perform a full backup of my personal desktop.
> However this backup never completes sucessfully, it always end's with a
> 'exiting after signal ALRM' 4h30 after it's startup.
> 
> The backuppc it's an old HP/Vectra VE with an Pentium 200MMX and 64MB,
> running a customized RedHat 6.2 ( kernel 2.4, perl 5.8, reiserfs ), with
> 36Gb to the spool area.
> My personal desktop it's an athon running windows XP with about 10Gb of data
> where most of these files are 1GB files from VMware application.

The timeout is probably too short for large files that will be
very slow with compression on.  Simply increase the timeout.
See $Conf{SmbClientTimeout}.

By the way:

2003/2/3 06:40:10  trashClean : Insecure dependency in chdir while running
with -T switch at /disk02/backuppc/lib/BackupPC/Lib.pm line 398.

This probably means you are using perl5.8.  trashClean is never
running, so old backups will not get removed.  Please remove
the -T option from the first line of BackupPC_trashClean.

Craig