I've been running bacula 1.38 on my linux fileserver with 2 exabyte magnum LTO-3 libraries for several months and I recently had problems with a couple of full backups failing due to lost communication with the FD daemon. I was writing directly to the tape drive and decided to try data spooling to improve data transfer to the LTO-3 drive and setup a 250GB disk area for the spool. Last night I ran a full backup of a 350GB disk area and it started around 2AM and was still running this morning. I could see that it had done one 250GB chunk and was on the remaining 100GB chunk, which finished dumping to the disk spool area in more or less reasonable time and then seemed to be spooled to the tape device - in perhaps not as ideal a time, but nonetheless finished and then no more data is being sent to the tape drive, the intermediate spool file has been deleted, but the job still isn't finished. Status says it is still running and the SD status says it is: Attr spooling: 1 active jobs, 2,153,030,897 bytes, 3 total jobs, 2,188,188,495 max bytes.
I got curious and wondered if it was related to the database, so I checked its status and I can see the time being updated on the bacula sqlite database file. The first byte counter in the SD status Attr line is decreasing, but very, very slowly. Does anyone know what the job is now doing (updating the database, presumably) ? And why should it be taking so long ? Some more information - prior to the full backup, I had a running job that was an incremental that had been promoted to a full of about 27GB. This job also did the data spool to disk and then spool to tape in "reasonable time" but then took more than 4 hours to complete the Attr spooling part. Thanks for any assistance, Dirk ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys-and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
