On May 17, 2007, at 10:07 AM, Joseph Wright wrote: > Hello, > > I know it's a lot of problems, but they all started last night. > > Running 'status jobs' shows that all jobs ended with errors. > However, there were no logs to tell me what happened. > > When I tried to run a restore, it started to build the directory > tree, and after a few minutes booted me out of bconsole and into the > shell. > > I can connect to the director from a client machine, but it hangs > while connecting to the client from the director, for example to run > an estimate. > > Oddly, on one of the clients, an strace of the bacula-fd shows tons > of activity going on, even though there are no jobs running on the > director. > I have restarted bacula-fd, bacula-sd, bacula-dir, postgresql. Yet > when bacula-fd is restarted on that particular client, the activity > starts up again. Most of the others I have checked show the file > daemon to be in a waiting state, so this does not seem normal. > > After a nice run without major problems, I'm supposedly finished with > testing and ready to put 4 new storage servers into production when > they arrive today... > > (\_/) > (o,o) > ()_() Joseph Wright > " " >
The problem I reported may have been due to a change I made in the postgresql configuration, since that is the only thing I had done the previous day that I can recall. I had turned autovacuum on because the daily vacuum was taking over an hour, and with just five clients being backed up. I turned that feature off, dumped the database and reloaded it. After that I was able to run a restore and last night's backups completed successfully. It's pretty disturbing that modifying the database settings could wreak such havok, if that was in fact the cause. I wonder if it would be safe to enable autovacuum if I first dropped the database and then reloaded it after enabling the autovacuum. (\_/) (o,o) ()_() Joseph Wright " " ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by DB2 Express Download DB2 Express C - the FREE version of DB2 express and take control of your XML. No limits. Just data. Click to get it now. http://sourceforge.net/powerbar/db2/ _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
