Re: [BackupPC-users] signal=ALRM

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web...@ho... writes:

> I have been trying to backup a solaris server using rsync for many weeks 
> now but have not been successful.
> 
> After the NewFileList builds for a number of hours, the backup process
> dies
> and all that time building the NewFileList is wasted.
> 
> Why does it not just backup whatever it can up to the error point ?
> 
> tail of LOG file for the last few attempts:
> 
> 2003/10/26 03:00:02 full backup started for directory /
> 2003/10/26 18:16:03 cleaning up after signal ALRM
> 2003/10/26 19:00:00 full backup started for directory /
> 2003/10/26 22:23:21 cleaning up after signal ALRM
> 2003/10/26 23:00:06 full backup started for directory /
> 2003/10/27 02:23:43 cleaning up after signal ALRM

Because of a bug, $Conf{ClientTimeout} for tar XferMethod applies to
the entire dump, not just activity during the dump.

As a workaround, simply increase the value of $Conf{ClientTimeout}
to be longer than the maximum expected backup duration.

Craig