On 27 March 2014 21:43, Philip Guenther <[email protected]> wrote: > On Thu, 27 Mar 2014, Ville Valkonen wrote: >> after having backups running for few days, system crashes. I am using >> rsnapshots for the backups. >> >> The crash happened on snapshot from 22-03-2014 running i386. >> Attached dmesg is slighlty newer, from 27-03-2014 (dmesg below). >> >> An external backup hard drive is attached via USB. > ... >> Here are the debug messages I was able to retrieve via serial line. After >> typing "show pool" it went to an unresponsive state. > > Do you recall the actual panic message? > > The most likely cause is a fatal I/O error while processing a softdep > worklist, which will trigger a panic (this is a known issue with > softdeps). If that's the case, then you should reconsider using a failing > harddrive as your backup device. But without the actual panic message, I > can't tell if that's the case. > > > Philip Guenther
Hello Philip, and thanks for the answer. I'll try to re-create the panic and attach a screen next time. Regards, Ville
