[BackupPC-users] BackupPC and PowerEdge E1410 CPU 1 IERR
Maybe this is a shot in the dark, I have already asked on the Linux PowerEdge mailing list, just hoping that someone has had a very similar problem and can help narrow down all of the possibilities. I have a PowerEdge 1900 with Ubuntu Dapper 6.06.1 LTS x86_64 with dual Xeon 5110 processors, PERC 5/i with 2 SATA drives in RAID1, 3 more drives on motherboard SATA with LVM for the backup data. The server is stable as long as I don't run BackupPC. I called Dell and they recommended taking out the Intel add-in gigabit card and try the onboard Broadcom, tried that and it still crashed with the same error, so it's not the network card. I have run a regular rsync of about 200 GB from the server to another computer, and that worked fine, and that was more CPU and I/O intensive than BackupPC. I really need to get some more time to do more hardware diagnostics, but I'm having to do it off hours and get someone there to escort me so it's been hard to schedule downtime. I disabled all but one host then ran BackupPC_dump -v -f host from the console and also a tail of /var/log/messages, there were no errors in the system log, the dump was just a ways into the stream of dumping files, create / pool, toward then end there are a few Can't link X to errors. I started the dump around 11pm and it crashed at 4:13am, this was only supposed to be about 18 GB so it seems like it should have been quicker than that. There are a lot of hardware things that it could be, CPU, memory, riser board, PERC controller, motherboard. The disks that it is dumping to are on the motherboard SATA controller and not on the PERC. Any ideas that could help me to pinpoint this problem? Thanks, Jonathan - Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT business topics through brief surveys - and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.phpp=sourceforgeCID=DEVDEV ___ BackupPC-users mailing list BackupPC-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/
Re: [BackupPC-users] BackupPC and PowerEdge E1410 CPU 1 IERR
On Fri, 2006-12-15 at 10:01 -0500, Jonathan Dill wrote: [...] Ok, more details please, you're being too vague. Is your linux box crashing (kernel oops, freeze, spontaneous reboot) or is just the backup failing? What version of backuppc are you running? If you get an oops, can you post it here? What are the last lines of the LOG file for the host you tried? What backup method are you using (rsync/ssh, sshd, smb, tar)? What filesystem do you use for your (c)pool? How many files does the backup you tried consist of? Usually if it's hardware related, the memory is the culprit. Try a memtest86+ run and see if that shows any errors. Hth, Guus - Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT business topics through brief surveys - and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.phpp=sourceforgeCID=DEVDEV ___ BackupPC-users mailing list BackupPC-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/
Re: [BackupPC-users] BackupPC and PowerEdge E1410 CPU 1 IERR
Guus Houtzager wrote: Ok, more details please, you're being too vague. Is your linux box crashing (kernel oops, freeze, spontaneous reboot) or is just the backup failing? What version of backuppc are you running? If you get an oops, can you post it here? What are the last lines of the LOG file for the host you tried? No kernel oops, no spontaneous reboots, no errors in the system log, no thermal warnings, the system freezes and the LCD on the front bezel shows E1410 CPU 1 IERR. The Dell tech told me this usually indicates a problem on the PCI bus, most often the add-in network card, but we ruled that out. backuppc-2.1.2-2ubuntu5 perl-5.8.7-10ubuntu rsync-2.6.6-1ubuntu2 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~# uname -a Linux imageserver 2.6.15-27-amd64-server #1 SMP Fri Dec 8 18:02:49 UTC 2006 x86_64 GNU/Linux LOG (entire contents): 2006-12-14 23:00:00 full backup started for directory DriveC From XferLOG it looks like I should add an exclude for $NtServicePack$, but that's just noise, there is an occassional error like below, but no other errors: create 64418/544 247693 WINDOWS/$NtServicePackUninstall$/msoe.chm Can't link /var/lib/backuppc/pc/sandraxp2k3/new/fDriveC/fWINDOWS/f$NtServicePackUninstall$/fmsoe.dll to /var/lib/backuppc/pool/9/5/4/954484d7dde3b57fa9e7a971a7200bdf pool 75518/544 1176064 WINDOWS/$NtServicePackUninstall$/msoe.dll I have also previously tried just a Linux host, and that also locked up the system. I should try just backing up the localhost and see what that does. What backup method are you using (rsync/ssh, sshd, smb, tar)? What filesystem do you use for your (c)pool? How many files does the backup you tried consist of? I'm using rsyncd on the client as the backup method. I'm using ReiserFS 3.6 with standard journal for the pool filesystem, and the fs is on an LVM . Usually if it's hardware related, the memory is the culprit. Try a memtest86+ run and see if that shows any errors. Yeah, that's definitely suspect, but it could take an hour or so to check 2 GB of memory unless it hits an error early on. Scheduling the time take the server offline is the hard part. Thanks, Jonathan - Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT business topics through brief surveys - and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.phpp=sourceforgeCID=DEVDEV ___ BackupPC-users mailing list BackupPC-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/
Re: [BackupPC-users] BackupPC and PowerEdge E1410 CPU 1 IERR
On Fri, Dec 15, 2006 at 04:21:11PM +0100, Guus Houtzager wrote: Usually if it's hardware related, the memory is the culprit. Try a memtest86+ run and see if that shows any errors. You might want to use the Dell tools to check the memory sind the Dell guys usually want it's results before they care. HTH, Tino. -- www.quantenfeuerwerk.de www.spiritualdesign-chemnitz.de www.lebensraum11.de - Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT business topics through brief surveys - and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.phpp=sourceforgeCID=DEVDEV ___ BackupPC-users mailing list BackupPC-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/
