The same happened to me and the strangest part is i could compile the kernel, and do all the memory tests just fine, as you i also had new ram so after changing lots of things like network cards, removing hardware and so one i changed the ram (the ones that all the tests said it was fine) and voilá... it started working like a charm. The curious is it just stopped working while doing the backups, I manage several hosts ones with tar, other with rsync and some others with samba. I think the memory would only stop if working under stress for a long time (as the kernel compilation does) but with the kernel compilation maybe it wasn't long enough. As backuppc uses compression, encryption and high IO for a long time it probably stresses the computer more than the kernel compilation.
Probably the same is happening to you. Cheers, Pedro ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Pedro M. S. Oliveira IT Consultant Email: [email protected] URL: http://pedro.linux-geex.com Cellular: +351 96 5867227 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- On Friday 02 January 2009 04:00:59 Gene Horodecki wrote: > I've been backing up my house with backuppc a very long time and never > had any problems. I was using the rsyncd method, but a couple months > ago it dawned on me that I wasn't getting all the files because of > permissions so I switched to the ssh/tar method and it continued to work > just fine. > > However, over the last little while things have stopped working. I have > three 'hosts' that go overnight and not one of them works. With the > ssh/tar method I get 'unexpected end of tar file' and with the ssh/rsync > (as opposed to rsyncd) method I get 'Got fatal error error during xfer > (aborted by signal=PIPE)' > > It almost seems to me like ssh is dying. To make matters worse, > sometimes it takes my entire system down with it and spontaneously > reboots. I do notice ssh using up almost 80% cpu while the backup is > going but otherwise I don't see anything abnormal, other then the system > going away... > > I've done the following two things in the last month: > 1) increased my RAM from 1G to 3G > 2) upgraded from ubuntu 7.10 to ubuntu 8.10 > > I just tried upgrading backuppc from whatever version I have to the > newest one, and it's still doing the same thing. Please help??!? > > Thanks. > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > _______________________________________________ > BackupPC-users mailing list > [email protected] > List: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users > Wiki: http://backuppc.wiki.sourceforge.net > Project: http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/ > --
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