Re: [Xen-users] FC6/Xen crash -- isolated to rsnapshot job

[Nico Kadel-Garcia <nkadel@xxxxxxxxx>]

master@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> I've isolated my FC6/xen crashing problems to cron backup jobs that were
> running in my dom0. I have moved the jobs into a domU and now observe the
> crashing behavior in the domU. At least the entire environment doesn't
> come down when it's in a domU.
>
> In my crontab, I have a series of rsnapshot backup jobs to backup a
> handful of windows and linux servers. For windows machines, the script
> mounts a share on the windows machine using CIFS (samba). It seems only
> the Windows backup jobs crash the machine and then only crash when two or
> scheduled to start at exactly the same time.
>
> I can replicate the problem by running the crontab command from the
> command line. If I run the commands one at a time, no crash. If I start
> them both back to back, the crash occurs within 30 seconds or so.
>   
Why aren't you running them sequentially? /etc/cron.daily is your friend 
for scheduling this kind of work.
That doesn't solve the conflict, but may allow you to work around it.


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