Mark Maciolek wrote at about 13:37:27 -0500 on Thursday, December 15, 2011:
 > On 12/15/2011 1:31 PM, Zach La Celle wrote:
 > > We just upgraded our backup machine and are using an external USB3 hard
 > > drive for backups.
 > >
 > > Last night, something went wrong, and when I got in this morning I saw
 > > the following errors on the backup machine:
 > >
 > > [88921.670598] usb 1-1: device not accepting address 0, error -71
 > > [88921.670665] hub 1-0:1.0: cannot disable port 1 (err = -32)
 > > [88921.674631] usb 1-1: Device not responding to set address.
 > > [88921.880971] usb 1-1: Device not responding to set address.
 > >
 > > Could this be caused by BackupPC?  When I unplugged and replugged the
 > > USB hard drive, it started working, but I'm worried that BackupPC is
 > > corrupting the drive somehow.

What????? Why in the world would you think BackupPC which is really
just a fancy perl script be responsible for hardware/driver problems?
Even if BackupPC were responsible, you give absolutely no information other
than a hardware error to help anyone troubleshoot your problem.

Just because you run backups on that drive doesn't mean that backuppc
is the cause of your problems. I mean, you probably have hundreds if
not thousands of programs on your system. Do you ask the same question
about every program on your system on the random chance that one of
those programs might be causing some totally unrelated hardware/driver
error?

The only even remotely possible connection with BackupPC is that
backups are disk intensive so it is possible that BackupPC brings out
instability in your hardware more than say just plugging in the disk
and reading a file or two.


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