We are using veritas backup and we use ext3 for all filesystems. Our backups would die at about the same place. The last file Being backed up appeared to be a file that warnings would be generated on. I have the filesize limit set to 2 gb, and this file would appear to Hit the limit. Veritas would complain that it could not back this file up. We put in a script that cleans the file every night and have not had the problem since. I did not replace the disks as there was not enough evidence to show that it was the problem ------------------ Marvin Blackburn Systems Administrator Glen Raven "He's no failure. He's not dead yet" --William Lloyd George > -----Original Message----- > From: Faehl, Chris [mailto:cfaehl@xxxxxxxxxxxx] > Sent: Friday, July 09, 2004 11:00 AM > To: mblackburn@xxxxxxxxxxxxx; General Red Hat Linux discussion list > Subject: RE: EXT3 problems in Enterprise Workstation 3? > > What are you using to perform backups? We're running > PowerEdge 1750s, 2650s, and 6650s using RHEL 3 ES rather than > WS, and have not seen this issue using Veritas NetBackup. Are > you using any ext3 options on root? > It sounds like you're experiencing a batch of bad RAID cards > (or as Marvin indicated, maybe a bad batch of disks?) > > -- > Chris Faehl > Hosting Manager, RightNow Technologies > > -----Original Message----- > From: redhat-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx > [mailto:redhat-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Marvin Blackburn > Sent: Friday, July 09, 2004 6:05 AM > To: 'General Red Hat Linux discussion list' > Subject: RE: EXT3 problems in Enterprise Workstation 3? > > > We have had some strange problems during backups also. > The file system starts reporting errors and the system hangs. > A reboot fixes this. > > We have had this problem on 2 dell 2650's. There answer was > to replace All the disks in the system with another make. > > They really don't have a clue as to what is happening. > > ------------------ > Marvin Blackburn > Systems Administrator > Glen Raven > "He's no failure. He's not dead yet" --William Lloyd George > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: redhat-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx > > [mailto:redhat-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of > Michael Halligan > > Sent: Thursday, July 08, 2004 9:21 PM > > To: redhat-list@xxxxxxxxxx > > Subject: EXT3 problems in Enterprise Workstation 3? > > > > I've had about three servers in the past week lose their root > > partitions during nightly backup.. It only loses the root > partition, > > and it's rather strange. It doesn't necessarily lose the > data in the > > root partition, but it might as well, since fsck ends up > deleting all > > the inodes. These are all Dell PowerEdge 1750s with two > mirrored 36GB > > scsi drives on Dell's Perc/4I card. > > > > I've given up trying to figure out who to talk to at dell for the > > worthless support we purchased on these was hoping maybe > somebody else > > was running into this? I've dug through ERRATA and haven't seen any > > ext3 bugs, but at this point I'm unsure what to do. The hardware > > seems fine, but I won't rule out the possibility that these > raid cards > > suck. > > > > Michael T. Halligan > > -------------------- > > Mypoints.com > > Infrastructure Engineer > > 415-615-1160 > > > > -- > > redhat-list mailing list > > unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subjectunsubscribe > > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list > > > -- > redhat-list mailing list > unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list > -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
