UGH! Unrecoverable error!!!

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old_user176417 Send message Joined: 17 Mar 06 Posts: 14 Credit: 81,978 RAC: 0	Message 28698 - Posted: 14 May 2007, 21:50:11 UTC Well thats a first for me. I have been running this model since last fall and was within 600hrs of getting done. I get home today and notice the \"time to completion\" was over 1900hrs again. And the CPU time was only like 4 hrs. I checked the log and found that at 11AM or so CDT the model had hit an \"unrecoverable error\". So now I am back to square one. Hope they got some good data. Would backing up my CP data help avoid this?? ID: 28698 · Reply Quote

MikeMarsUK Volunteer moderator Send message Joined: 13 Jan 06 Posts: 1498 Credit: 15,613,038 RAC: 0	Message 28700 - Posted: 14 May 2007, 22:28:05 UTC The data will be very useful, it\'s good that you got past 2043 (2040 is when a \'restart dump\' is uploaded to the server). Once the software is written, this will allow someone to rerun your model from 2040 onwards. Your model crashed with an access violation, if you\'d had a backup you could have restored from that and continued again (not all crashes can be restored from backup, there are some which will always stop at the same point). If you do a backup it needs to be of the entire Boinc directory structure, when Boinc is shut down. I'm a volunteer and my views are my own. News and Announcements and FAQ ID: 28700 · Reply Quote

mo.v Volunteer moderator Send message Joined: 29 Sep 04 Posts: 2363 Credit: 14,611,758 RAC: 0	Message 28701 - Posted: 14 May 2007, 23:30:33 UTC Zoomer, through my sig you can get to the READMEs. One of them is just about backups with a selection of methods all suitable for cpdn. Cpdn news ID: 28701 · Reply Quote

old_user176417 Send message Joined: 17 Mar 06 Posts: 14 Credit: 81,978 RAC: 0	Message 28739 - Posted: 16 May 2007, 16:49:54 UTC Ok I had backed up a few nights ago as a test but I did it wrong (I need to learn how to READ). What I did was just back up the CP folder from the Boinc folder. Did not work of course, when I tried to restore the folder as a test of the method the thing got stuck in an infinate loop of trying to communicate and gettting deferred. Finally just aborted it, cleared it out and got a fresh model to run. NOW when I backup I copy the whole Boinc folder over to my other HD and I also burn it to a CD. Dont want to lose a model run again :) ID: 28739 · Reply Quote

mo.v Volunteer moderator Send message Joined: 29 Sep 04 Posts: 2363 Credit: 14,611,758 RAC: 0	Message 28764 - Posted: 17 May 2007, 16:51:32 UTC If you go to the project READMEs thro the link in my signature, you\'ll find one that\'s all about backups. I use Les\'s click-by-click easy manual method, but there are more sophisticated methods too. Les\'s method also works for restoring backups. The READMEs are also at the top of the Number crunching section of this forum. Cpdn news ID: 28764 · Reply Quote