Check your /tmp directory or MySQL 'tmpdir' location to see it it's filling up with temporary DB data. This same problem happened to, in my case it was dying at around the 180GB mark.
Moving the MySQL tmpdir to a much larger location took care of my problem. -John On Wed, Jul 08, 2009 at 05:32:31PM +0100, Gavin McCullagh wrote: > Hi, > > On Wed, 08 Jul 2009, Gavin McCullagh wrote: > > > I've set a heartbeat interval of 60 seconds on the director and am running > > the backup again to see what happens. > > Actually, this didn't solve it. Despite the heartbeat packets visibly > (in tcpdump) going from director to FD, the connection dropped at the same > point anyway. > > I then added the heartbeat interval to the FD too, so you can now see a > heartbeat from DIR->FD and an ACK back from FD->DIR. I now have a backup > job running 2 hours 40 minutes and counting. > > That seems to be it. I guess perhaps the connection originated from the > DIR so the firewall is only happy if it sees packets coming from the system > which was connected _to_. > > Gavin -- Brain: Pinky, Are you pondering what I'm pondering? Pinky: Uh, I think so Don Cerebro, but why would Sophia Loren do a musical? ------------------------------------------------------------------- John M. Lockard | U of Michigan - School of Information Unix and Security Admin | 1214 SI North - 1075 Beal Ave. jlock...@umich.edu | Ann Arbor, MI 48109-2112 www.umich.edu/~jlockard | 734-615-8776 | 734-647-8045 FAX ------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Enter the BlackBerry Developer Challenge This is your chance to win up to $100,000 in prizes! For a limited time, vendors submitting new applications to BlackBerry App World(TM) will have the opportunity to enter the BlackBerry Developer Challenge. See full prize details at: http://p.sf.net/sfu/Challenge _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users