On 24 Jun 2005 at 13:42, Jesus Salvo Jr. wrote:

> I was doing my first full backup of a specific host by specifically running 
> the job from bconsole.
> 
> While it was running the job for several minutes, I dediced to do a query 
> from 
> bconsole, select some options ... then bconsole exited. It seems that 
> director has exited, and a mail to root was generated with the following 
> contents ( except that the actual mail body is empty ):
> 
> 
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Bacula DBX traceback of bacula-dir
> Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Date: Fri, 24 Jun 2005 11:33:48 %z
> Content-Length: 0
> 
> 
> 
> 1) Is this supposed to happen ( You are not allowed to a a query from 
> bconsole 
> while a backup job is running ) ?

No.  And No.

> I was of the understanding that query from 
> the console only reads from the catalog ... and so would not interrupt a 
> running job that reads / writes from / to the volumes.

You are correct.

> 2) Also ... I thought that running a job manually from the console
> allows you to exit from the console and the job will still run in the
> background. Obviosly I was wrong 

No, you aren't wrong.

> ... as the job was cancelled when I exited from the console. Is this
> right ? 

If the Director terminates, all jobs are stopped.  They're gone.

I think you need to tell us more about the problem.  Start with 
versions, operating systems, etc.
-- 
Dan Langille : http://www.langille.org/
BSDCan - The Technical BSD Conference - http://www.bsdcan.org/




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