Re: [rdiff-backup-users] backups over ssh frequently fail

[Ben Escoto]

>>>>> Russell Poyner <address@hidden>
>>>>> wrote the following on Fri, 30 Apr 2004 11:27:44 -0500
> I recently setup a machine to backup 4 others in our lab using
> rdiff-backup over ssh using a cron job.  Usually at least one of the
> backups fails with 2 current_mirror files in the rdiff-backup-data
> directory.
> 
> At this point I am to new with rdiff-backup to even now how to
> properly log the errors that are causing the failures, so a tip
> there would help.
> 
> I suspect though that what I am seeing is some sort of network
> problem that is crashing my rdiff-backup sessions.

Perhaps you could have your cron daemon mail you the stdout and stderr
of the process?  You could also check the files backup.log and
error_log.<time>.data[.gz] in <dest-dir>/rdiff-backup-data.


-- 
Ben Escoto

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