Thanks for the response. I am just doing dumps to the local drive and running tar and creating tar files - all locally on the system's drives. I have raid software mirroring going on. i will check the syslog and kernel.log
On Tue, Jan 24, 2012 at 3:37 AM, Joe <j...@jretrading.com> wrote: > On Mon, 23 Jan 2012 15:19:50 -0500 > Joey L <mjh2...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> thanks for the input - >> I am suspecting hardware myself..but can see anything in the logs or >> elsewhere. It seems that when i run a backup script in screen - it >> seems to be putting the server in a freezing state (can not get the >> numlock light to come on when pressed). >> The script only does a mysqldump and tar - that is all. >> >> any other thoughts would be appriciated. >> > If there's any log of a terminal event anywhere, it will be in either > syslog or the kernel log. But if it's a problem which can be logged, it > can also be survived, and having written something useful to syslog, > the kernel is not then going to crash hard. I don't think you'll find > anything logged directly, the best you can hope for is some kind of > warning about disc or RAM errors or similar, during the backup before > the crash. That's not very likely, as such errors would probably corrupt > the backup and almost certainly the backup will terminate early, > without the machine crashing. > > None of that software (in Stable at least) is new and potentially > flaky, and it must be heavily tested by many people every day. I'd > still go with hardware, perhaps being unusually stressed by the backup. > > Is it possible to change the backup destination type i.e. if it's going > to a local disc at the moment, send it to a USB drive or network share, > or vice versa? Can you monitor and log the CPU temperature and fan speed > during the backup? > > -- > Joe > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org > Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20120124083756.0e59d...@jretrading.com > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/CAK3ER7sUJwzJgBzX1rzDS9Hi=w1vc-cyneaksgfzysbo9re...@mail.gmail.com
