Running rsnapshot via cron reboots the machine

David N davidn04 at gmail.com
Mon Dec 15 00:24:02 PST 2008


Hi,

I have a machine
AMD Sepron LE-1150
ASUS M2A-VM
1GB RAM ECC
2x SATA 300GB

in a RAID 1 (gmirror).
7.0-RELEASE-p2 AMD64 generic kernel

it was doing backups via bacula to an external disk
USB 2.0 SATA disk, and it was working well. (GLabel) /dev/ufs/BackupDisk

I changed to rsnapshot recently, with the External HDD in glabel +
gjournal (/dev/da0s1.journal -> /dev/ufs/BackupDisk) and it will
reboot the machine roughly 30 minutes after the rsnapshot starts via
CRON.

If i run rsnapshot without CRON, eg. via the command line it works
fine. (I'm compiling the new kernel p6 whilst doing an rsnapshot via
the command line)

I have changed the time it does the rsnapshot, from 3AM (reboots at
3:30-3:40AM roughly) to 4:30AM (reboots at 5AM roughly). So its
nothing running on the system doing it. If i remove the rsnapshot from
the CRON, the computer stays on and doesn't reboot.

Its not the power supply, and the computer is on a UPS and the UPS log
hasn't reported any blackouts. (There are 2 other servers that doesn't
turn off so its not a blackout).

I left gstat and top running

 L(q)  ops/s    r/s   kBps   ms/r    w/s   kBps   ms/w   %busy Name
    0      0      0      0    0.0      0      0    0.0    0.0| acd0
    0    125    125   4164    5.5      0      0    0.0   29.9| ad4
    0      0      0      0    0.0      0      0    0.0    0.0| ad4s1
    0      0      0      0    0.0      0      0    0.0    0.0| ad4s2
    0    125    125   4164    5.6      0      0    0.0   30.5| ad4s3
   34    142     71   9079    9.4     71   8697  212.0   99.3| da0
   34    142     71   9079    9.6     71   8697  213.5   99.3| da0s1
    0      0      0      0    0.0      0      0    0.0    0.0| da0s1c
    7    135     71   9079    9.7     64   8184   33.0   85.1| da0s1.journal
    0    125    125   4164    9.2      0      0    0.0   39.8| ad6
    7    135     71   9079    9.7     64   8184   36.2   91.9| ufs/BackupDisk
    0      0      0      0    0.0      0      0    0.0    0.0| ad6s1
    0      0      0      0    0.0      0      0    0.0    0.0| ad6s2
    0    125    125   4164    9.3      0      0    0.0   40.4| ad6s3
    0      0      0      0    0.0      0      0    0.0    0.0| mirror/gm0s1
    0      0      0      0    0.0      0      0    0.0    0.0| mirror/gm0s2
    0    125    125   8328    9.9      0      0    0.0   43.9| mirror/gm0s3
    0      0      0      0    0.0      0      0    0.0    0.0| mirror/gm0s1a
    0      0      0      0    0.0      0      0    0.0    0.0| mirror/gm0s1b
    0      0      0      0    0.0      0      0    0.0    0.0| mirror/gm0s1c
    0      0      0      0    0.0      0      0    0.0    0.0| mirror/gm0s1d
    0      0      0      0    0.0      0      0    0.0    0.0| mirror/gm0s2c
    0      0      0      0    0.0      0      0    0.0    0.0| mirror/gm0s2d
    0      0      0      0    0.0      0      0    0.0    0.0| mirror/gm0s3c
    0    125    125   8328   10.2      0      0    0.0   45.2| mirror/gm0s3d


last pid: 18829;  load averages:  0.29,  0.45,  0.50
              up 1+01:31:23  05:01:50
64 processes:  1 running, 63 sleeping
CPU states: 16.5% user,  0.0% nice, 25.2% system,  3.0% interrupt, 55.3% idle
Mem: 69M Active, 436M Inact, 395M Wired, 44M Cache, 108M Buf, 3944K Free
Swap: 2048M Total, 308K Used, 2048M Free

  PID USERNAME  THR PRI NICE   SIZE    RES STATE    TIME   WCPU COMMAND
18634 root        1  -4    0 15224K  2244K getblk   0:45  9.47% rsync
18633 root        1  98    0 18296K  4576K select   0:45  4.69% rsync
18375 root        1   8    0 20556K  8412K wait     7:20  0.00% perl
 4447 root        1 -64    0  7656K  2036K RUN      1:21  0.00% top
 4321 root        1   8    0 11784K  2008K nanslp   0:45  0.00% gstat
18627 root        1  96    0 15224K  2596K select   0:36  0.00% rsync
 4219 evxadmin    1  96    0 32936K  3220K select   0:07  0.00% sshd
 3800 evxadmin    1  96    0 32936K  3164K select   0:06  0.00% sshd
18629 root        1  96    0 32868K  3964K select   0:04  0.00% sshd
18628 root        1  96    0 23764K  7664K select   0:04  0.00% ssh
  851 root        1  96    0 12476K  1832K select   0:04  0.00% nmbd
 1788 root        1  96    0 10576K  2812K select   0:02  0.00% sendmail
 1147 root        1  96    0 24456K  2404K select   0:01  0.00% nmbd
 1346 root        1  96    0 22224K  2504K select   0:01  0.00% nmbd
 3957 evxadmin    1  96    0 32936K  3220K select   0:01  0.00% sshd
 1800 root        1   8    0  5736K  1032K nanslp   0:01  0.00% cron
 1754 root        1   8    0  5736K   980K nanslp   0:00  0.00% cron
 1557 root        1   8    0  5736K   980K nanslp   0:00  0.00% cron
 1387 root        1   8    0  5736K   980K nanslp   0:00  0.00% cron
 1192 root        1   8    0  5736K   980K nanslp   0:00  0.00% cron
 4646 root        1  96    0 36968K  4892K select   0:00  0.00% smbd
  775 root        1  96    0  4684K  1064K select   0:00  0.00% syslogd


Nothing else seems to be running.

Its driving me insane! any help would be appreciated. smart says the
HDD are fine.

Regards
David N


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