It might well be connected and the TimeMachine might be the cause of your problem.I have just finished running the Health Check scanner in the GUI for the attached disk and it has found errors in a single sector - the TimeMachine location!! It said, "The volume TimeMachine could not be repaired after 3 attempts." Could this all be connected?
I will check tomorrow if you don't mind Maybe somebody else will be ready to help earlier.Is there anything in that Crash Log that refers to the TimeMachine process?
You may consider uninstalling everything related to TimeMachinge and then installing it again. You'll see what you will get.Could this all be connected? Is there anything in that Crash Log that refers to the TimeMachine process? Last night when all of this started happening my MacBook was plugged in and was plugged in all night syncing a lot of content with my head office - obviously it would have tried to backup up to TimeMachine on several occasions. And, Last night was the first time I have had my MacBook turned on since upgrading to 386.2-4. Is this all just a coincidence or..?
Yes. There is a crash dump of the Time Machine process that is preceded by HFS+ filesystem errors on the USB drive.Is there anything in that Crash Log that refers to the TimeMachine process?
How are things? Have you been able to resolve your reboot issue?Is there anything in that Crash Log that refers to the TimeMachine process?
Well said. The mantra "The right tools for the right job," applies here. Asus and Merlin builds are flooding the router with too many gizmos. You can use a cheap and reliable Raspberry Pi to offload many tasks such as ad and malware filtering. Add a firewall / VPN device in front of your network and let the Asus router do its job as a ROUTER.@PT25, read below what I think about this situation. I can't read and analyze all the accumulated posts above, sorry.
- firmware update is unlikely to cause reboots. I have 3x AC86U test routers and they all were running 386.2_4 fine, no "panics"
- your router may have developed hardware issue over time - test it with clean stock Asuswrt and observe the behavior/syslog
- I wouldn't run a home router as NAS. The hardware inside is much weaker than Raspberry Pi and has very little RAM available
- spdMerlin saturates your WAN connection twice per hour just to show you a nice graph, it may interfere with your work
- Cake QoS turns your Gigabit WAN-LAN router into up to 300Mbps router due to incompatibility with Broadcom's Runner and Flow Cache
- You never shared any details on what your current ISP connection speed is, I understand you had DSL in the past
- It's not very clear for me what is your always-on VPN client protecting
If your Internet access is extremely important, use your router as router. This is the brain of your network. Offload other tasks (Pi-hole, real NAS) to other devices on your network. I know it's convenient and cheap to run all-in-one, but when one thing goes down your entire network goes down.
The ability to run scripts is not feature advertised or supported by Asus. It is only available in Merlin's unofficial firmware.I am intrigued by the 'Right tools for the job' comment. I was under the impression I had bought the correct tool for the job. I understand the AC86U to be a very competent piece of kit designed to used as a VPN Server and NAS server for example, and designed to run scripts to enhance its other features.
Your analogy is the wrong way around. The stereo that comes with your car is sufficient for basic music listening. If you want the full high fidelity experience you listen to the high end audio equipment in your home. Same with the router's USB storage. It's OK for lightweight storage of non-critical data but if you want to store large volumes and/or critical data then you should be using a dedicated NAS.Is this not the same reasoning as buying a car with a Stereo? The car is designed to drive, so by the 'Right tools for the job/ mantra you should also then buy a battery radio rather than using the one built in?
The ability to run scripts is not feature advertised or supported by Asus. It is only available in Merlin's unofficial firmware.
Your analogy is the wrong way around. The stereo that comes with your car is sufficient for basic music listening. If you want the full high fidelity experience you listen to the high end audio equipment in your home. Same with the router's USB storage. It's OK for lightweight storage of non-critical data but if you want to store large volumes and/or critical data then you should be using a dedicated NAS.
All router manufacturers will claim they can be used as a NAS but that is really just marketing-speak. They never mention anything about reliability or redundancy which is what a dedicated NAS would offer.
With all that said, if you repair the filesystem errors on the USB drive and delete the corrupted backup you'll probably be fine again.
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