Hello again,
On Mon, 8 Mar 2004, Christian Hammers wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 08, 2004 at 02:58:17PM +0000, Ged Haywood wrote:
> > > and started it with "strace /usr/bin/cron" it hung at:
> > > connect(4, {sin_family=AF_UNIX, path="/dev/log"}, 16) = 0
> > > send(4, "<78>Mar 8 11:25:40 /usr/sbin/cr"..., 70, 0) = ? ERESTARTSYS
>
> > What other disc devices do you have in the system?
> A 3ware RAID controller (for /dev/sda) and a 3COM 3c509 network
> interface.
Er, disc devices. :) So is /dev/log on a SCSI device? Is a write to
the SCSI device failing? If so what, how and why?
> > Have you tried to use USB1.1 instead of USB2.0?
> Not possible, the server acts as backup server and needs the speed to
> get finished before dawn.
Yes it's possible, you just won't be able to do everything you want to
do with 1.1 - but it might tell you something if you try it. Given
the experimental nature of USB under Linux, and the problems you've
been having, are you using any other backup methods? Until it's a lot
more stable, I would be wondering if USB is suitable for something as
important as my daily backups. Do you write a gzip file that you can
later test for data integrity? My daily backups are all written to
.tgz files which are tested after they're written. They're written to
two separate IDE discs after being copied from the SCSI RAID arrays.
The test results and a few other things are logged. When I log in on
any machine, the first thing I see is the result of the backup tests.
Occasionally I get a horrible shock...
> > Have you run 'fsck' on your root partition recently?
> On my '/'? No, last time was 2003-09-10.
Under the circumstances, I'm a little surprised by that. What's the
filesystem type?
73,
Ged.
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