On Fri, 2011-12-09 at 21:50 +0100, Michel wrote:

> > Why would your restore to /raid/home/user be affecting things under
> > /var?   In any case, I'd recommend using rsync over ssh to the server
> > for the backups instead of backing up the nfs-mounted view.
> >
> That is a very good question indeed..
> 
> The folder I was trying to restore was a harmless one in /raid that
> should have nothing to do with the rest of the system as far as I
> know... It's just the place I store the /home of a completely
> different system.

Could it be that the io of the backuppc process is triggering a hardware
or software failure in the OS?

Is there anything in dmesg or /var/log ?

-- 
Tim Fletcher <tim AT night-shade.org DOT uk>


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