Hi,

> Hi folks,
> 
> Has anyone experienced BackupPC crashing? I'm trying to recover our 
> backup server. I can log-in with all the services switched off 
> (interactive boot) but a normal start causes full blown kernel 
> panics :( The server was running for about two years before this 
> started to happen. Has anyone had any similar experiences? I'm 
> trying to figure out what might be going on!

I have a BackupPC server running for a couple of years without issues (HP
ProLiant DL380 G3 with some chunky disks). I upgrade the Broadcom NIC firmware
in it, and it started to kernel panic every night thereafter. Never completed
a nightly backup run would always crash.

It took me a while to figure out it was the NIC firmware that caused the
problem. I downgraded the firmware back to its original and the problem went 
away.

Running SL5.4 (RHEL5 U4 derivative) on that host.

Kernel panics are typically hardware related.

Regards,

Michael.

> The OS is CentOS 4.4, the system log files shown nothing untoward 
> and the /backup/data directory has about 950Gb of data in it.
> 
> TIA
> 
> Huw
> 
> -- 
> Huw Wyn Jones 
> Systems Administrator 
> Coleg Meirion Dwyfor
> 
> huw.jones AT meirion-dwyfor.ac DOT uk
> 
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