Closed ZoidbergZulu closed 6 years ago
Output of mount for the repo disk (check both for a cron-run and for your manual-as-root runs whether it makes a difference)? Filesystem in repo disk?
The repo disk mounts cleanly at all times. e2fsck runs without errors. I have tried both scenarios with disk mounted already and disk mounted before running borg via cron. I just can't get my head around this: Even IF my HDD has an issue, why does the same command work when ran manually that fails in a cron job...
Do you run borg as root from your cronjob?
Check the environment inside the cronjob vs. your environment when being root. PATH?
Multiple borg versions installed?
Yes, it's part of cron.daily, which is run by root in crontab. PATH should not really play a role since I use absolute paths, i.e. /usr/bin/borg. Or am I mistaken here?
The package manager would not allow for different borg versions in parallel.
Any suggestions would be sincerely appreciated...
OK, good.
Just noticed that the problem is in the cache, not in the repo.
So, please post smartctl -a /dev/sdx
output for the disk that has the borg cache (usually $HOME/.cache/borg
). What fs is that? Run fsck on it.
Wow... this was unexpected - my SSD (roof FS) might be broken after all: tunefs failed with a bad superblock error: tune2fs: Bad magic number in super-block while trying to open /dev/sda
All Smart Selftest checked out fine however....
SMART Self-test log structure revision number 1
Num Test_Description Status Remaining LifeTime(hours) LBA_of_first_error
# 1 Extended offline Completed without error 00% 355 -
# 2 Extended offline Completed without error 00% 347 -
# 3 Extended offline Completed without error 00% 339 -
# 4 Short offline Completed without error 00% 331 -
# 5 Short offline Completed without error 00% 331 -
# 6 Extended offline Completed without error 00% 331 -
Thanks a lot, ThomasWaldmann - I will further investigate but it appears to be an FS or even hardware issue...
Can you show the complete smartctl output?
Here you go:
smartctl 6.6 2017-11-05 r4594 [x86_64-linux-4.14.65-gentoo] (local build)
Copyright (C) 2002-17, Bruce Allen, Christian Franke, www.smartmontools.org
=== START OF INFORMATION SECTION ===
Model Family: Intel 540 Series SSDs
Device Model: INTEL SSDSC2KW240H6
Serial Number:
LU WWN Device Id: 5 5cd2e4 14e8f000d
Firmware Version: LSF036C
User Capacity: 240,057,409,536 bytes [240 GB]
Sector Size: 512 bytes logical/physical
Rotation Rate: Solid State Device
Form Factor: 2.5 inches
Device is: In smartctl database [for details use: -P show]
ATA Version is: ACS-3 (minor revision not indicated)
SATA Version is: SATA 3.2, 6.0 Gb/s (current: 6.0 Gb/s)
Local Time is: Sun Sep 16 18:06:26 2018 CEST
SMART support is: Available - device has SMART capability.
SMART support is: Enabled
=== START OF READ SMART DATA SECTION ===
SMART overall-health self-assessment test result: PASSED
General SMART Values:
Offline data collection status: (0x02) Offline data collection activity
was completed without error.
Auto Offline Data Collection: Disabled.
Self-test execution status: ( 0) The previous self-test routine completed
without error or no self-test has ever
been run.
Total time to complete Offline
data collection: ( 0) seconds.
Offline data collection
capabilities: (0x53) SMART execute Offline immediate.
Auto Offline data collection on/off support.
Suspend Offline collection upon new
command.
No Offline surface scan supported.
Self-test supported.
No Conveyance Self-test supported.
Selective Self-test supported.
SMART capabilities: (0x0003) Saves SMART data before entering
power-saving mode.
Supports SMART auto save timer.
Error logging capability: (0x01) Error logging supported.
General Purpose Logging supported.
Short self-test routine
recommended polling time: ( 2) minutes.
Extended self-test routine
recommended polling time: ( 15) minutes.
SCT capabilities: (0x0039) SCT Status supported.
SCT Error Recovery Control supported.
SCT Feature Control supported.
SCT Data Table supported.
SMART Attributes Data Structure revision number: 1
Vendor Specific SMART Attributes with Thresholds:
ID# ATTRIBUTE_NAME FLAG VALUE WORST THRESH TYPE UPDATED WHEN_FAILED RAW_VALUE
5 Reallocated_Sector_Ct 0x0032 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 47
9 Power_On_Hours_and_Msec 0x0032 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 356h+00m+00.000s
12 Power_Cycle_Count 0x0032 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 12
170 Available_Reservd_Space 0x0033 099 099 010 Pre-fail Always - 0
171 Program_Fail_Count 0x0032 100 100 010 Old_age Always - 0
172 Erase_Fail_Count 0x0032 100 100 010 Old_age Always - 0
174 Unexpect_Power_Loss_Ct 0x0032 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 4
183 SATA_Downshift_Count 0x0032 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 0
184 End-to-End_Error 0x0033 100 100 090 Pre-fail Always - 0
187 Uncorrectable_Error_Cnt 0x0032 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 75
190 Airflow_Temperature_Cel 0x0032 033 043 000 Old_age Always - 33 (Min/Max 29/43)
192 Power-Off_Retract_Count 0x0032 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 4
199 UDMA_CRC_Error_Count 0x0032 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 0
225 Host_Writes_32MiB 0x0032 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 23728
226 Workld_Media_Wear_Indic 0x0032 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 0
227 Workld_Host_Reads_Perc 0x0032 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 0
228 Workload_Minutes 0x0032 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 0
232 Available_Reservd_Space 0x0033 099 099 010 Pre-fail Always - 0
233 Media_Wearout_Indicator 0x0032 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 0
241 Total_LBAs_Written 0x0032 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 23728
242 Total_LBAs_Read 0x0032 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 72479
249 NAND_Writes_1GiB 0x0032 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 339
252 Unknown_Attribute 0x0032 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 3
SMART Error Log Version: 1
No Errors Logged
SMART Self-test log structure revision number 1
Num Test_Description Status Remaining LifeTime(hours) LBA_of_first_error
# 1 Extended offline Completed without error 00% 355 -
# 2 Extended offline Completed without error 00% 347 -
# 3 Extended offline Completed without error 00% 339 -
# 4 Short offline Completed without error 00% 331 -
# 5 Short offline Completed without error 00% 331 -
# 6 Extended offline Completed without error 00% 331 -
# 7 Extended offline Completed: read failure 80% 331 0
# 8 Extended offline Completed: read failure 80% 331 0
# 9 Extended offline Completed: read failure 80% 331 0
#10 Extended offline Completed: read failure 80% 331 0
#11 Extended offline Completed: read failure 80% 331 0
#12 Extended offline Completed: read failure 80% 331 0
#13 Extended offline Completed: read failure 80% 331 0
#14 Extended offline Completed: read failure 80% 331 0
#15 Extended offline Completed: read failure 80% 331 0
#16 Extended offline Completed: read failure 80% 331 0
#17 Extended offline Completed: read failure 80% 331 0
#18 Extended offline Completed: read failure 80% 331 0
#19 Extended offline Completed: read failure 80% 331 0
#20 Extended offline Completed: read failure 80% 331 0
#21 Extended offline Completed: read failure 80% 330 0
15 of 15 failed self-tests are outdated by newer successful extended offline self-test # 1
SMART Selective self-test log data structure revision number 1
SPAN MIN_LBA MAX_LBA CURRENT_TEST_STATUS
1 70403103932424 70403103932424 Not_testing
2 70403103932424 70403103932424 Not_testing
3 70403103932424 70403103932424 Not_testing
4 70403103932424 70403103932424 Not_testing
5 70403103932424 70403103932424 Not_testing
Selective self-test flags (0x4008):
After scanning selected spans, do NOT read-scan remainder of disk.
If Selective self-test is pending on power-up, resume after 0 minute delay.
That looks bad (5, 187 and also the tests at 331 hours) - guess you should send it in for warranty.
Alright, thanks for your great support here. The issue is obviously closed.
Have you checked borgbackup docs, FAQ, and open Github issues?
Yes, as far as I could
Is this a BUG / ISSUE report or a QUESTION?
Potential Issue (?)
System information. For client/server mode post info for both machines.
Server Gentoo Linux with all updates installed Linux nibbler 4.14.65-gentoo #1 SMP
Your borg version (borg -V).
borg 1.1.6
I have tried 1.1.7 and latest snapshot as well
Operating system (distribution) and version.
Gentoo Linux with Kernel 4.14.65
Hardware / network configuration, and filesystems used.
Backup on USB HDD
How much data is handled by borg?
About 1.5 TB
Full borg commandline that lead to the problem (leave away excludes and passwords)
/usr/bin/borg prune /mnt/backup/borg --keep-daily 7 --keep-weekly 8 --keep-monthly 12 --keep-yearly 2 --prefix '{hostname}-' --remote-path borg1 --umask 77 --debug --stats --list
Describe the problem you're observing.
Borg crashes with I/O Error but ONLY when run as Cron Job. Running the same script as root in the shell works perfectly fine.
As Cron Job, I get the following Error:
The external HDD is in good state, SMART has not recognized any errors and self-testing works fine.
Can you reproduce the problem? If so, describe how. If not, describe troubleshooting steps you took before opening the issue.
YES: Everytime the Backup is run as Cron, it fails. Everytime, the cron script is executed by root it works.
Include any warning/errors/backtraces from the system logs