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I have been unable to figure out why I continue to receive 65280 error
when trying to do a full backup. When I selected a small directory of
less than 10Gb, the backup ended normally. A full backup of 35Gb
continues to end with this error after running for 6-8 hours. I have
tried increasing the timeout parameter so that should not be an issue.
SSH seems to be configured correctly given a successful run at smaller
volumes and no errors or prompts when running from the shell. Any
suggestions?



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Mark Rude writes:

I have been unable to figure out why I continue to receive 65280 error
when trying to do a full backup. When I selected a small directory of
less than 10Gb, the backup ended normally. A full backup of 35Gb
continues to end with this error after running for 6-8 hours. I have
tried increasing the timeout parameter so that should not be an issue.
SSH seems to be configured correctly given a successful run at smaller
volumes and no errors or prompts when running from the shell. Any
suggestions?

Not sure. 65280 is 0xff00, meaning the exit status is -1.
Tar shouldn't use that exit status, so I would guess it
is coming from ssh.

Does it fail at the same place each time? Look at the end of the
XferLOG.bad file. If so, perhaps something like a large file (eg:
4GB) is tripping things up.

I assume you can reliably run a full tar over ssh piped to, say,
"tar tvf -". Do you get any errors?

Craig


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Craig Barratt writes:

Mark Rude writes:

I have been unable to figure out why I continue to receive 65280 error
when trying to do a full backup. When I selected a small directory of
less than 10Gb, the backup ended normally. A full backup of 35Gb
continues to end with this error after running for 6-8 hours. I have
tried increasing the timeout parameter so that should not be an issue.
SSH seems to be configured correctly given a successful run at smaller
volumes and no errors or prompts when running from the shell. Any
suggestions?

Not sure. 65280 is 0xff00, meaning the exit status is -1.
Tar shouldn't use that exit status, so I would guess it
is coming from ssh.

Does it fail at the same place each time? Look at the end of the
XferLOG.bad file. If so, perhaps something like a large file (eg:
4GB) is tripping things up.

I assume you can reliably run a full tar over ssh piped to, say,
"tar tvf -". Do you get any errors?

I left out another obvious suggestion - increase $Conf{ClientTimeout}.

In BackupPC 2.0.2 there are certain cases where $Conf{ClientTimeout}
isn't restarted as new traffic arrives - the effect is the
$Conf{ClientTimeout} must be larger than the longer backup duration.

These cases are fixed in BackupPC 2.1.0beta.

Craig


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