Re: server crashes on debian.
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 <joe@jretrading.com> wrote:
> On Mon, 23 Jan 2012 15:19:50 -0500
> Joey L <mjh2000@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?
>
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