[BackupPC-users] Backup faiures, how to troublehoot

[Andrew L. <al...@xf...>]

Greetings,

I've got a problem with a backup that seems to have started
with one failed backup back in January.  Since then each
attempt at a new backup fails.  The log shows

2009-02-24 17:28:55 Saved partial dump 73
2009-02-25 05:02:47 full backup started for directory /;
updating partial #73
2009-02-26 19:30:34 full backup started for directory /;
updating partial #73
2009-02-28 22:22:06 full backup started for directory /
(baseline backup #72)
2009-03-01 19:54:38 Got fatal error during xfer (Child
exited prematurely)
2009-03-01 19:54:44 Backup aborted (Child exited prematurely)
2009-03-01 19:54:46 Saved partial dump 73

I don't seem to be getting any more information
as suggested might be there in this thread from early
Feb 2009:

http://www.mail-archive.com/bac...@li.../msg13380.html

There are a lot of files on the system, and backups take
quite a while so I upped the timeout to 40 hrs, but
backups seem to be failing now in under 20 hrs when they
were failing at the 20 hr mark.

Any hints or suggestions are greatly apprecaiated.  Other
info that might be helpful:

Both client and server are ubuntu 8.04.
Transport is rsync.  Client has about 6.5 million files.

Thanks in advance for any help.

Andy


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