On Saturday 08 April 2006 18:51, Ron Johnson wrote:
> On Sat, 2006-04-08 at 17:04 -0700, Paul Johnson wrote:
> > On Saturday 08 April 2006 14:39, Ron Johnson wrote:
> > > On Sat, 2006-04-08 at 14:20 -0700, Paul Johnson wrote:
> > > > I just got a new 400 GB external Seagate hard drive connected by USB2
> > > > or Firewire.  The problem is, randomly while running faubackup backup
> > > > at night via cron, the system locks up with a kernel panic that I
> > > > can't scroll back on because it's too long and USB keyboards stop
> > > > working after panic.  No output to system logs.  Running manually
> > > > causes the hard drive to lock up the system about 2 out of 3 times. 
> > > > Is there a way to get this undesired behavior to stop, short of going
> > > > without any backup?
> > >
> > > Is the HDD attached via USB or Firewire?  I'm guessing USB2, but
> > > want to clarify.
> > >
> > > Have you tried Firewire?  I've never had troubles with it.
> >
> > I've tried both, but currently using firewire with it.
>
> How much are you trying to copy?  I've also got an external FW
> disk, so I'll try to make my system crash.

/ (excluding some stuff in /var and temporary and cache directories).  Looking 
at about 75 GB

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