Topic: backup problem (backup to desktop)

[hawk]

Hi

i am having a problem with one of my servers, before i go,to bugzilla can anyone think of of a quick fix. this is a server running server & gateway mode, it is new hardware that was restored about 3 months ago, this error seems to come and go. single drive.

From:     admin-backup@myserver
To:     admin@myserver.co.za
Subject:     Daily Backup Failed: blomlinuxserver.myserver.co.za

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DAILY BACKUP TO WORKSTATION REPORT
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Backup of blomlinuxserver.myserver.co.za started at Wed Oct 30 22:30:11 2013
Backup of mysql databases has been done
Mounting backup shared directory <172.1.16.20:Linux Backup>
Using set number 1 of 1
Attempt incremental backup number 7 of 0
Backup temp directory /mnt/smb/tmp_dir/blomlinuxserver.myserver.co.za is mounted and is writable
Backup base file name is inc-007-201310302230
Starting the backup with a timeout of : 25170 seconds
FATAL error, aborting operation
Badly formatted terminator, cannot extract catalogue location
*** No backup allowed or error during backup ***
Error while running dar: 2


From:     Cron Daemon <root@myserver.co.za>
To:     root@myserver.co.za
Subject:     Cron <root@blomlinuxserver> /sbin/e-smith/do_backupwk

Error while running dar: 2 at /etc/e-smith/events/actions/workstation-backup-dar line 488.
Backup terminated: backup failed - status: 7424

it does the same when trying to do a full backup, one thing i have noticed the the server seems to hang up when attempting the backup, i have looked through the logs and can't identify any thing unusual,

i will continue to try figure out what is the problem, but if anyone has had the same problem and managed to sort out please let me know

thanks
John

[p-jones]

You probably need to tell us about the desktop you are trying to back up to also.

[hawk]

oh sure

it is a NAS Drive Qnap, 2GB HDD

with plenty of free space.

SME is using 200GB - and i have 1.5 GB free on the NAS.

thanks

[TerryF]

That error has been shown in the past to have been caused on some occasions by a memory fault and/or other hardware fault.  Not definitive but somthing to eliminate.

[hawk]

great thanks

will check the hardware

thanks

[hawk]

hi  thanks for all your help.
i changed the RAM and everything started working straight away, also solved some other errors i was getting

thanks
john

[TerryF]

Good outcome, just out of curiosity what brand and part number was the old RAM

Thanks

[hawk]

ADATA - AD3U1333W4G9-B - 4GB

I don't think that it is this brand that was the problem as i have it in other servers, just this particular stick.

thanks