Re: [rdiff-backup-users] --check-destination-dir taking a very long time

[Patrik Dufresne]

At this point, I would just kill all the rdiff-backup process. Then
manually start the backup again to the USB drive. Run it with -v9 and post
the logs here.

That should provide us enough guidance about what is going on. Either the
process will fail quickly (this is what I expect). If the process is taking
too long, try to give us the logs that you gather.

Since it's USB, could you check if the USB speed is alright ? If for
whatever reason the USB speed switched from USB 3.0 to USB 2.0. It might
take for ever to do a backup. You could double check this with "lsusb -t".
Expect 5000M for USB 3

ikus060@ikus060-laptop:~/workspace/HPUCA/hpuca-valuepack.git$ lsusb -t
/:  Bus 02.Port 1: Dev 1, Class=root_hub, Driver=xhci_hcd/8p, 10000M
    |__ Port 4: Dev 2, If 0, Class=Mass Storage, Driver=usb-storage, 5000M
/:  Bus 01.Port 1: Dev 1, Class=root_hub, Driver=xhci_hcd/16p, 480M
    |__ Port 5: Dev 14, If 0, Class=Hub, Driver=hub/3p, 480M

A look to "dmesg" might also reveal some information about a change to the
usb channel.

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On Mon, Sep 9, 2019 at 7:47 PM Walt Mankowski <address@hidden> wrote:

> On Mon, Sep 09, 2019 at 07:38:52PM -0400, Patrik Dufresne wrote:
> > Hum, this is strange. It should not fail with a "no space left on
> device".
>
> Agreed! That's why I originally thought it must have been some sort of
> USB glitch.
>
> > Could you provide the log generate with -v9 ? Plz provide the full
> command
> > line you used.
>
> So kill the run with -v8?
>
> > What is the filesystem of your USB drive ?
>
> ext4
>
> > If you try to run the backup again do you have an error?
>
> In fact that happened last night. My normal nightly backup kicked in
> while a previous attempt at running --check-destination-dir was still
> running. The cronjob reported:
>
>   Previous backup seems to have failed, regressing destination now.
>   Fatal Error: Killed with signal 15
>
> The latter was when I killed it when I woke up and saw that both of
> them were running.
>
> Walt
>
> > On Mon, Sep 9, 2019, 7:33 PM Walt Mankowski, <address@hidden> wrote:
> >
> > > Good idea! But unfortunately it doesn't seem to be the problem:
> > >
> > > % df -hi /backup
> > > Filesystem     Inodes IUsed IFree IUse% Mounted on
> > > /dev/sde1        117M   19M   98M   17% /backup
> > >
> > >
> > > On Mon, Sep 09, 2019 at 07:23:14PM -0400, Patrik Dufresne wrote:
> > > > Hello Walt, could you double check the disk space. Especially the
> number
> > > of
> > > > inode ? It's probably the root cause of your issue.
> > > >
> > > > On Mon, Sep 9, 2019, 7:19 PM Walt Mankowski, <address@hidden>
> wrote:
> > > >
> > > > > I've been running rdiff-backup to an external USB drive for years
> > > > > without any problems. Over the weekend my backup failed with
> > > > >
> > > > >   Exception '[Errno 28] No space left on device
> > > > >
> > > > > This is odd, since there is 1.2 TB free on the drive. I didn't see
> any
> > > > > errors in syslog, and I was able to create a new file on the drive
> > > > > without any problem.
> > > > >
> > > > > Thinking it might have been a USB glitch I rebooted the machine and
> > > > > now I'm running
> > > > >
> > > > >   rdiff-backup --check-destination-dir
> > > > >
> > > > > to recover the backup directory. It was taking a very long time,
> and I
> > > > > restarted it with the -v8 hoping I might get some clue as to what
> it
> > > > > was doing. Unfortunately after spitting out some routine-looking
> > > > > output in the first few seconds it's now been running in silence
> for
> > > > > nearly 12 hours.
> > > > >
> > > > > It's getting CPU time and I don't see any errors in syslog, so I'm
> > > > > assuming that it's doing something. But I don't have any idea what
> > > > > it's doing, if it's working correctly, or how much longer it's
> likely
> > > > > to take.
> > > > >
> > > > > Is it normal that a regression takes this long? /backup is
> currently
> > > > > at 527 GB.
> > > > >
> > > > > Thanks.
> > > > >
> > > > > Walt
> > > > >
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