Hi, I am running 2.2.4 for the last three days (upgraded from 2.2.1).
I have found this in the logs this morning (spooling enabled): 18-Sep 14:17 xxxxx-sd: Despooling elapsed time = 05:20:43, Transfer rate = 22.60 M bytes/second 18-Sep 14:27 xxxxx-sd: Spooling data again ... 18-Sep 14:27 yyyyy-fd: Could not stat /mnt/data/Out/<username>/<dirname>/make_pfm.pl~: ERR=No such file or directory And as far as I can see, one of the (huge) jobs that has finished spooling about 400GB of data yesterday night and was supposed to finish despooling to tape overnight is still running and busy spooling the same data over again. What is going on? The only explanation I can think of is that this is somehow related to 'checkfilechanges' option. I do not have this option mentioned anywhere in any of my FileSet resources but I suspect it is set on by default, which is not documented. What is worse however, the above "start over on error" behavior is also undocumented: See: http://www.bacula.org/rel-manual/Configuring_Director.html#SECTION001470000000000000000 "checkfilechanges=yes|no On versions 2.0.4 or greater, if enabled, the Client will checks size, age of each file after their backup to see if they have changed during backup. If time or size mismatch, an error will raise. zog-fd: Client1.2007-03-31_09.46.21 Error: /tmp/test mtime changed during backup. In general, it is recommended to use this option." >From the description above, I was expecting this option to simply warn about vanished/changed files. Invalidating whole backup and starting from scratch due to a single missing file looks like overkill for me. Besides, there is very little chance avoiding at least a single file mismatch of this kind during large backups on a live production system. On the other hand, I would really like such errors to be checked and reported (as warnings) so that operator can notice more unusual situations. So, am I right and this "Spooling data again..." behavior is caused by checkfilechanges feature? Thanks, Ivan The information transmitted in this electronic communication is intended only for the person or entity to whom it is addressed and may contain confidential and/or privileged material. Any review, retransmission, dissemination or other use of or taking of any action in reliance upon this information by persons or entities other than the intended recipient is prohibited. If you received this information in error, please contact the Compliance HelpLine at 800-856-1983 and properly dispose of this information. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2005. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/ _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
