Hi,

I've been running a plesk 7.5.4 box on FreeBSD for over a year now with no problems. However recently our backup has started to bring the server down from time to time. The box has dual zeons and 1gb of ram. When the problem first started occuring we switched from a single backup file to spliting the file like so /usr/local/psa/bin/psadump -f - | split -b1000m - /mnt/ (as the backup was arround 2GB and I thought this might be the cause of the crashing)

Unfortunately it crashed again last night using the split backup, so it looks like backup file size might not be the issue. I've checked the logs and can't see any evidence of faulty hardware and the system runs fully stable during the days. Has anyone else experienced this? Could it be the server needs a RAM upgrade? Any advice much appreciated

You may want to have the RAM checked in the server. If the RAM goes bad, once enough data is loaded into memory to reach that bad memory segment the server will crash. If this is the case a RAM swap should fix it. But drop tech support a ticket and request a RAM test be performed on the backup server.

Good luck.