From: <ob...@jl...> - 2009-04-30 17:03:29
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My guess is you have a bad memory stick. Boot from your Ubuntu CD and select "memtest". -J Christopher Derr said the following on 04/30/2009 12:51 PM: > I'm currently running the latest backuppc version that Ubuntu officially > supports (it's behind Debian as far as I can tell and I haven't tried to > use the Debian version): 3.0.0. Apt-get shows it's the latest available > through Stable. Anyway, the system (Tyan 2912G2NR, 8 GB memory, 4 TB in > RAID 5) crashes often. Becomes untouchable, I go to the console, hit > enter to bring up a logon prompt, then the machine is officially > frozen. I figure it's a kernel panic, but I'm not seeing anything > telling in any log I can find. This happens almost exclusively when > backing up a one of our Windows fileservers using rsync with 700 GB+ > data over our 1 Gb link. > > My thoughts are it could be Ubuntu or it could be the hardware. They > system doesn't seem to have any issues except on this one machine's > backups, and even then it's not every time (just most of the time). I'm > considering moving to Debian and the latest version of Backuppc (3.1...I > realize 3.2 is still in beta). I think I just need to backup my > /etc/backuppc config files but if I keep the /var/lib/backuppc mount, I > should be able to reinstall the system without affecting the backups. > Not sure if the 3.1 upgrade is going to talk with the 3.0 backup files > though. > > Thoughts about Ubuntu or my upgrade in general? > > Thanks, > > Chris > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Register Now & Save for Velocity, the Web Performance & Operations > Conference from O'Reilly Media. Velocity features a full day of > expert-led, hands-on workshops and two days of sessions from industry > leaders in dedicated Performance & Operations tracks. Use code vel09scf > and Save an extra 15% before 5/3. http://p.sf.net/sfu/velocityconf > _______________________________________________ > BackupPC-users mailing list > Bac...@li... > List: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users > Wiki: http://backuppc.wiki.sourceforge.net > Project: http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/ > > |