I ran raqbackup.sh for the first time last night and this morning the server had crashed. I did recieve and email saying that the backup completed but on the ftp site all of the files aren't there.

What can I do to help the backup run to completion and not crash the raq?

Thanks

First things first.
When you say crash, do you mean the entire server or just Apache?

Did you give the ftp account enough diskspace. If not your server probably goes down indeed.

I'm not sure exactly what all went down. I know Apache went down. I tried to restart it, but that didn't help. So I had to do a reboot.

The ftp site has plenty of space.

You should check your error logs to see what caused it to go down.
What was the error message that you got when u tried to restart apache?

Where are the error logs?

I didn't get an error message. It restarted, but I still couldn't access the pages through a browser.

you need to find your logs :-)
they should be in /var/log/
the webserver ones will be in a sub-directory httpd

dont tell me that you dont know where to find the logs ??

Read up in cobalt related forums, helpdesks, faq !! Those are basics you are really going to need if you get a cobalt.

Paul, do you have very large sites on your RaQ (very large site: > 900 MB).

There is a known bug in CMU with sites > 900 MB. CMU will eat up all memory. I would suggest to use the newest beta from ftp://ftp-eng.cobalt.com/pub/users/jeffb/cmu/beta or to patch your current version of CMU (search the cobalt-users archive for "CMU" and "900")

HTH
Daniel

here is the link to the posting

http://list.cobalt.com/pipermail/cobalt-developers/2002-March/036031.html

Yes, I do have a large site.

I'll try this tonight and let you know tommorrow what happens!

Ok nothing blew up last night!!

But it didn't finish!

I'm checking the raqbackup logs and found an error.

MySQL Error
/usr/bin/mysqldump: unrecognized option `--all-databases'


And according to the log it opened a ftp connection but it never closed.

Last night was the night my weekly backup ran also and it appears that process is still running as well.

I just got the email saying it completed.

The files look complete. How can I verify that everything is here?

What are the xml files?

Where are the mysql dumps?

MySQL Error
/usr/bin/mysqldump: unrecognized option `--all-databases'

You have to upgrade MySQL - please see the installation-notes.

For the other problems you have to post your logfiles here - /home/raqbackup/logs/raqbackup.log and /home/cmu/cmu.log would be very helpful.

best regards
Daniel