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

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