CPanel backups failing.

Hi there!

I was directed here from the SMF fora, here:

http://www.simplemachines.org/community/index.php?board=34.0

because I'm having some serious problems.

Before we went down to the west-country, last weekend, I took a backup of the forum, like you do, from cpanel.

No problems.

When we got back, I took another one.

Problem is, it started fine, coming down at over 400 KB/s, but it slowed, very quickly, to a crawl, before failing, altogether.

It also knocked the forum out, for 45 minutes, or so.

Every time I've tried it, since, has resulted in the same thing happening.

The host's confused and I'm.. well... confused.

If I use the Java SMF database backup program, that I downed from the SMF site, everything works, like a charm.

OK. So I can still back up the database, using the java thing.

Thing is, there seems to be no way of taking a full home directory backup.


I can optimise the tables OK. I can do the old "Find and repair errors" thing, OK, too. Both these are done in the SMF software.

Dunno if it's a clue, but when I download stuff from the forum, via ftp, some files always fail and they're always gif files. (That's been the case for some time, too).

Well now I'm seriously fucking confused!

Using my better half's machine, I backed up. The forum's still there and the database came down at over 210 KB/s. The full home directory came down at the same speed.

So, it's looking like it's something to do with my machine...

How the Hell can taking a backup cause the forum to die?!?!?

Could the download dropping to a crawl and failing cause that?

The ftp problem doesn't manifest itself, either, if I use my wife's machine.

Could this be one of my security programs being a bit over-zealous?

I thought I'd ask, here, in case anyone else had suffered these problems.

Any ideas?

 

Obviously not.

Shame...

 

Curiously enough, backups did start appearing in the root of the site. None recently, though. I'll ask them about that, though. Thanks.

I understand what you say about server-loads and the like. I've tried at all sorts of times, though, and it happens every time. It seems to be something on my machine that's causing this, which is why I supplied all the apparently unrelated information.

Just in case anyone else had suffered from the same problem.

I can download the home directory back fine on my other half's machine.

My host's looked at everything that he can and there doesn't seem to be a problem at their end. I trust them, on that, because they've been the perfect host, thus far.


Thanks for noticing me.

 

We've been using it for ages and not had any problems.

 

Is it OK if that statement confuses me?

 

OK. Figured it.

As it has been, for over a year, my router was attached to my machine via the USB.

It's now just connected via the ethernet card and all is well.

Odd that it only affected the one site, via ftp, and the associated cpanel, though, innit?

Also odd that it's worked, perfectly, for all that time, too.

Still, all's well that ends well, ay?