This sounds like a major bug in at least the RedHat-shipped kernels. In many older versions of Netbackup, files greater than 2GB could not be backed up (I believe you'd get an Error 1, and the file would be skipped). This should never cause massive filesystem corruption, and Netbackup shouldn't be at issue here (it's just Veritas tar, and only should change metadata when performing backups). Michael, do you have your systems configured similarly? Marvin and Michael - what kernel version are you running? -- Chris Faehl Hosting Manager, RightNow Technologies -----Original Message----- From: Marvin Blackburn [mailto:mblackburn@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] Sent: Friday, July 09, 2004 9:13 AM To: Faehl, Chris; 'General Red Hat Linux discussion list' Subject: RE: EXT3 problems in Enterprise Workstation 3? 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
