Backups

[WireNine]

We're having a problem with Cp backups with one of our servers.

Errors are different all the time in logs.

Timeout at /usr/lib/perl5/5.8.7/Net/FTP.pm line 789

Waiting for load to go down to continue
Waiting for load to go down to continue
Waiting for load to go down to continue
Net::FTP=GLOB(0x99d3148): Timeout at /scripts/cpbackup line 415
Can't call method "login" on an undefined value at /scripts/cpbackup line 417, <PWCACHEENT> line 38.

Waiting for load to go down to continue
Waiting for load to go down to continue
Waiting for load to go down to continue
Net::FTP=GLOB(0x9ae9fec)<<< 220 (vsFTPd 2.0.1)
Net::FTP=GLOB(0x9ae9fec)>>> user wirenine_wirex
Net::FTP=GLOB(0x9ae9fec): Timeout at /scripts/cpbackup line 417
Unable to login to remote FTP server. at /scripts/cpbackup line 417, <PWCACHEENT> line 72.

Anyone know the solution?

 

[moonsoft]

yeah well; i'm having the same problem and i am FO*&^(*&^F(* ready to throw the box out the window!!!!!!! I have not found any information on this at all!

 

[hicom]

Yah, it means your box load is getting higher (possibly due to gzip of backups). Increase in the WHM -> Tweak Settings the threshold of load suspend and when the CPU load is considered high.

 

[rwoody]

Another backup issue - Possiblly related

I run daily backups at 4am - every morning I see warnings that httpd failed and cpanel had to do a restart - Restart ususally is ok - But Monday after Christmas it failed and I awoke to some very upset customers as all sites were down. It was fixed by merrely doing a restart via WhM - but the whole issue worries me. Now this am I find SSL was down. I contacted support at the NOC and this was their response to my inquiry -

"I could see from the Apache error logs apache exited because of a Fatal error:
[Tue Dec 26 03:53:37 2006] [alert] Child 3726 returned a Fatal error... \nApache is exiting!
It could have been because of the backup. Apache is working fine now, I've removed the semaphore arrays. The load also is fine."


This morning I did not get an error indicating httpd had to be restarted, but SSL was down. This all seems to be realted to the backups. I'm backing up to a second drive located on the machine.

Let me know if anyone is familiar with this issue or is it related to this thrread.

Thanks

 

[Spiral]

Someone mentioned MaxCPUs already ....

Another tip ...

Might want to check the logs in /etc/httpd/domlogs and see if any are unusually large
as those can can slow down your backups quite a bit and should be archived or
purged if they grow too large.

 

[smoge]

the whole issue worries me

Monitor your server and critical sites using a cheap second server ($29 a month will do it) and setup hobbit ....

Or, if your home PC is on 24/7 - setup OptManager

and setup some alerts to your mobile phone.

Both are free.

Then caused by WHM or not, you will know the status of your servers / sites.

Smoge