>>>>> On Thu, 10 Aug 2006 08:41:10 -0700 (MST), Scott Ruckh said: > > I have been running bacula Version: 1.38.8 (compiled from source) for a > few months now. I am running CentOS 4.3 on an x86_64 platform. > > I am backing up to disk (external USB storage). > > This has been running fine for the past few months. > > This week the system has crashed hard (no kernel panic) 2 times. I can > not find anything of value in any of the system logs. It is a complete > hang of the system. > > I am running VMware Workstation on this server. The reason I mention this > is because the only significant change to the system this week is that > more VM instances have been running on the server this week. All day long > the Virtual Machines and the physical system plays nicely with one > another. Then, within 2 minutes of seeing this bacula message Volume > "INCR-0003" previously written, moving to end of data, the system hangs. > The above message is seen write after the script defined in the > RunBeforeJob (for the physical system) directive is run (and completed > successfully). > > It is a presumed 2 minutes because that is the time from the above message > to the last message written to the /var/log/messages file.
Perhaps you can configure syslogd to send these messages to the console as well? > > I can not find any other jobs running at that time then would be any > different then the jobs running throughout the day. > > Anyone have any suggestions on things I could tune that would prevent the > system from crashing? Is the USB disk for anything other than backups? If not, maybe the problem the problem is USB-related. Can you do a backup to a non-USB disk? __Martin ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job easier Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache Geronimo http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=120709&bid=263057&dat=121642 _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
