I have discussed this topic before but I was not sure at had enough evidence to defend my stance.
Anyway, 3 or 4 weeks have passed and I still have the same problem. I am wondering if anyone else has a similar set up to mine. I am running CentOS 4.3 (x86_64) with latest vendor supplied patches. I am running bacula 1.38.8 compiled from source. I am backing up to disk (external USB2 WD-500GB disk). I am running fluxbox windows manager and running VMWare Workstation 5.5x. I run anywhere between 2-4 virtual machines within VMWare. Typically I have 1 x Windows 2003 Virtual Machine and 1 x CentOS Virtual machine running. The problem is that bacula will crash the host system, the CentOS machine, when it begins to write files to the USB disk. I have a job to backup the database before backup run. This job always completes, but after that the host system is in the state of no return. You can not get video signal, and can not see anything on the screen. The host system, the bacula server, is completely hung. I ran this system for a month or so without any problems without any virtual machines. Then I ran for almost 2 weeks straight with the 2 VMs listed above running. As soon as I added a 3rd machine running (a Fedora Core 5) the system crashed in the same spot. Although the environment runs fine all day long, as soon as bacula finishes backing up the databases and begins backups the host system will crash. Last night it killed the host system with only the 2 Virtual machines running. It crashed in exactly the same spot. Last night would have been a FULL backup as opposed to an incremental backup. This problem is definitely related to bacula. Everything else works fine all day long. The system hangs in the exact same spot when it dies (according to the log files). I originally thought maybe there was a contention problem with the external USB drive and USB devices in the Virtual Machines. I disabled all USB devices in the virtual machines thinking that would help, but it has not helped the situation. Bacula and VmWare are definitely not playing nice together. Does anyone have any suggesstions? Is anyone successfully running a similar environment? If anyone has some insight on a resolution I would appreciate your input. Thanks. -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
