I have been using BackupPC 3.0.0 on Ubuntu 8.04 (Hardy) for about 3 months,
and it has been rock solid.
I would suggest trying alternate hardware, before you switch OS's or
BackupPC versions.
Dave
-----Original Message-----
From: Christopher Derr [mailto:cmderr AT ucdavis DOT edu]
Sent: Thursday, April 30, 2009 9:51 AM
To: backuppc-users AT lists.sourceforge DOT net
Subject: [BackupPC-users] Ubuntu Stability
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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