repruitt Posted April 11, 2003 Report Share Posted April 11, 2003 We just upgraded our backup system so that we now have a LaCie AIT-2 Firewire drive connected to a Powermac G4 Server 500 MHz running OS X Server 10.2.4. Retrospect runs fine (recycle backup every Monday and incremental backups daily) and very quickly, however it seems to be interfering with other OS X server processes. Specifically, both mail services and Apple file services now seem to crash every night shortly after the Retrospect backup script kicks in. Neither of these problems existed prior to the installation of Retrospect on the server. Excerpt from last night's mail server log: Apr 10 2003 22:12:32 Initializing TCP ... Apr 10 2003 22:12:32 Initializing DNS ... Apr 10 2003 22:12:32 Host List: Apr 10 2003 22:12:32 Unknown : ulsmlbx04.mail.united.com Apr 10 2003 22:12:32 Unknown : liontamer.stanford.edu Apr 10 2003 22:12:32 Unknown : med.unc.edu Apr 10 2003 22:12:32 Unknown : keyclone.com Apr 10 2003 22:12:32 Remote : purdue.edu Apr 10 2003 22:12:32 Admin Local : xxx.xxx.purdue.edu Apr 10 2003 22:12:32 Unable to locate name server(s). Use the local host as name server. Apr 10 2003 22:12:33 Stopping server processes ... Apr 10 2003 22:12:33 Stopping Network Listeners ... Apr 10 2003 22:12:34 Closing all incoming connections ... Apr 10 2003 22:12:34 Stopping Mail Expiration Process ... Apr 10 2003 22:12:35 Stopping Notification Processes ... Apr 10 2003 22:12:36 Stopping SMTP Client Processes ... Apr 10 2003 22:12:37 Stopping Mail Routing Process ... Apr 10 2003 22:12:38 Stopping Independent Logging Process ... Apr 10 2003 22:12:39 Stopping Server Status Process ... Apr 10 2003 22:12:39 Mail Database Processes Stopped ... Apr 10 2003 22:12:39 Releasing network semaphore ... Apr 10 2003 22:12:39 Deinitializing Host Manager ... Apr 10 2003 22:12:39 Deinitializing Mail Database Objects ... Apr 10 2003 22:12:39 Deinitializing Text Objects ... Apr 10 2003 22:12:39 Closing the Mail Database ... Apr 10 2003 22:12:39 Stopping Network Processes ... Apr 10 2003 22:12:39 Stopping Power Management Process ... Apr 10 2003 22:12:39 Server Processes Stopped ... At the same time the Apple File services log shows: 10/Apr/2003:22:12:27 -0500: AppleTalk Listener closed because of ATalk error I'm no networking expert but it would seem to me that both of these are network related errors (failure to locate the name servers; ATalk error). Is it possible that these other services are shutting down due to networking timeouts kicking in because Retrospect is using all the available network bandwidth? If so is it possible to tweak Retrospect's nice value to get it to be a little less aggressive? Or is the best solution to just keep Retrospect off the OS X Server machine? Or is this just a quirky problem with the old hardware that we have running the server (due to be replaced in a few weeks)? Any thoughts or suggestions greatly appreciated... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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