This is what you said David Blewett > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > Scott Ruckh wrote: >>> I have tested this with all sorts of guest Virtual Machines and the >>> results are the same; bacula will crash (completely unusable) the >>> host machine. The only recovery method it to reboot the server. > > I use bacula in a similar manner, only I use LVM2 to create a snapshot > of the filesystem that the vmware image files are on. I also have bacula > use sparse file detection (which cuts the backup from 51GB [as reported > by the OS] to 33.5GB [as reported by the guest OS]). I've tested > restores of this method, and every thing seems fine. > > The host OS is Gentoo (kernel 2.6.21, vmware-server 1.0.3.44356, bacula > 1.36.3 - 2.2.4). Guest is Windows NT4 (long story...). > I have skipped backing up the vmware disk files on the host system and bacula has not crashed the server in 3-days.
I will have to do some more extensive testing, but it appears like I will have to implement a better strategy for backing up the vmware disk files for systems that are on-line. The LVM snapshot idea sounds like a good idea. I do not know why backing up those files causes a hard crash, but at least for the time being the environment appears to be more stable. Thanks. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
