Re: [BackupPC-users] Backup stalls - exiting after signal ALRM

[Carl W. S. <ch...@re...>]

On 04/14 12:24 , Manu Poletti wrote:
> We use BackupPC on Ubuntu Hardy to backup a number of Windows XP hosts 
> using smb.  It has worked faultlessly for at last 2 years; until a week 
> ago when the hosts stopped being backed up. Now none except localhost 
> that uses the tar transfer method work.

Have you tried running BackupPC_dump by hand?

$ su -
# su - backuppc
$ /usr/share/lib/backuppc/bin/BackupPC_dump -f -v host.to.backup

See if there's any consistency on where it stops, or if it gives you any
meaningful error.


Have you checked for filesystem corruption on your backuppc server?

In cases like this in the past, where it happened with individual hosts; I
would just try excluding parts of the filesystem on the host to be backed
up, until the backup succeeded. However, if all hosts are having the same
problem it would seem to be an issue with the backup server itself.


Are all your clients being backed up with SMB? Try setting some up to use
Cygwin rsyncd, and see if that succeeds.

-- 
Carl Soderstrom
Systems Administrator
Real-Time Enterprises
www.real-time.com