On Sunday 09 April 2006 01:42, Ron Johnson wrote: > On Sun, 2006-04-09 at 00:04 -0700, Paul Johnson wrote: > > On Sunday 09 April 2006 00:01, Ron Johnson wrote: > > > On Sat, 2006-04-08 at 21:19 -0700, Paul Johnson wrote: > > > > On Saturday 08 April 2006 21:12, Ron Johnson wrote: > > > > > On Sat, 2006-04-08 at 19:24 -0700, Paul Johnson wrote: > > > > > > / (excluding some stuff in /var and temporary and cache > > > > > > directories). Looking at about 75 GB > > > > > > > > > > My old 60GB Maxtor has about 45GB free, so I'm filling it up to > > > > > see if it pukes. Will report back with my finding. > > > > > > > > That might not be necessary. I just managed to get some kernel > > > > output trying another backup with some different module options. I > > > > also did a > > > > > > [snip] > > > > > > OK, I just twice wrote 40.7GiB to an external FW drive, with no > > > errors. > > > > > > The FW controller is built-in to my mobo's KM800 chipset. > > > > Well, it locks up whether it's on USB2.0 or FW somewhat randomly... > > Hardware problem? Bad HDD? > > Or heat? Your external enclosure might not be dissipating heat > effectively. > > Dodgy chipset? Well, I managed to reproduce this and I get an OOPS in the syslog right at the time it craps out, but it doesn't get written to disk for some reason and I lose it when I reboot. It also only seems to happen on the second or after run of faubackup when it's comparing to the last backup... -- Paul Johnson Email and IM (XMPP & Google Talk): baloo@ursine.ca Jabber: Because it's time to move forward http://ursine.ca/Ursine:Jabber
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