Check dmesg and see if you are having hardware errors on the drive. Make sure
it is not failing
Henry
Henry B. Burroughs, III
On Mon, Jun 1, 2015 at 5:08 PM, Random <[email protected]>
wrote:
> My company runs BackupPC on an Ubuntu machine. Everything typically run
> without any problems until the other day when, out the blue, an archive
> started failing. (I run it manually twice a month). I've tried to run it
> twice and it's failed each time with the same error. (Will paste below) I'm
> using the same backup drive that I've been using, so the permissions haven't
> change. The archive runs part way, before failing, so I can see two backup
> files show up on the drive, but not the other 4. Individually, the all 6
> machines are backing up as usual, except a 20000 millisecond timeout issue
> that happens periodically. (An issue I recently discovered but don't believe
> is related to my current problem).
> Here's the error that I get:
> Archive failed (Error: /usr/share/backuppc/bin/BackupPC_tarCreate, compress
> or split failed)
> I've checked both the archive log and backupPC's log via the web interface
> and they both list the same error.
> What could be going wrong?
> Thanks.
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