Re: [BackupPC-users] archive error

[Les M. <le...@fu...>]

On Wed, 2006-06-21 at 16:43 +0200, Oliver Vecernik wrote:
> Oliver Vecernik schrieb:
> > It happens exactly after 120 minutes.  I tried it with and without
> > split, but the same error occurs.  I'm using BackupPC on Ubuntu 6.06
> > Dapper Drake (Version 2.1.2).  Can anybody give me a clue what's going
> > wrong or how to track this down?
> 
> I also checked it with V2.1.2pl2 -- some error.  Again after exactly 120
> minutes the log says:
> 
> Executing: /usr/share/backuppc/bin/BackupPC_archiveHost
> /usr/share/backuppc/bin/BackupPC_tarCreate /usr/bin/split /usr/bin/par2
> localhost 7 /bin/gzip .gz 4700000000 /media/usbdisk/backuppc 5 *
> Xfer PIDs are now 15940
> Writing tar archive for host localhost, backup #7, split to output files
> /media/usbdisk/backuppc/localhost.7.tar.gz.*
> exiting after signal ALRM
> Archive failed: aborted by signal=ALRM
> 
> Another try without splitting the archive and without compression runs
> fine (51.9 min/~34G).  It must have something to do with the run time ...

ALRM is an internal timer.  Try setting
$Conf{ClientTimeout} to something much higher than the default 7200
(120 minutes).  It must apply to archive writes as well.

-- 
  Les Mikesell
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