3 things that have given me grief due to the windows FD stopping or being unresponsive (but still mysteriously running)... a) buggy network driver--in one case I was able to update the driver to fix. b) bad network switch or network port c) infection with a virus/malware that was using up the "max tcp connections". Check the event log for that error. d) regex in the fileset had a bug but that's been fixed around bacula version 2.5 or so. Along the way I learned that regex was slower to process than wilddir and wildfile so I stopped using it for windows filesets anyway.
In all cases these issues caused the windows FD to stop during a backup, so I hope this helps but if not, you may have to turn on debugging in the FD and cross your fingers that it happens and logs what went wrong. Bob > From: Drew Bentley <bacula.u...@gmail.com> >> > I can't seem to figure out what's going on because I've never >> > encountered this issue when backing up a Windows XP client with the >> > latest version of Bacula. >> > >> > I have no problems backing up the client but the file daemon >> > unexpectedly dies randomly, usually before a backup is even scheduled. >> > >> > The error I'm seeing in the event log goes something like this: >> > >> > Bacula Error: /home/kern/bacula/k/bacula/src/lib/bsock.c:518 >> > Read error from Director daemon:<hostname of my director>:9101: >> > ERR=Unknown error >> > >> > Above that it complains about local computer and registry info or >> > message DLL files to display messages from a remote computer, use >> > /AUXSOURCE=flag to retrieve this description, see Help and Support for >> > more details. >> > >> > Anyone encounter this? Is this machine missing something? I'm not a >> > Windows guy, more of a Unix guy. Everything seems to work okay when I >> > restart the FD service and backups run without issues. I have backups >> > kick off at like 7pm and it always seems to die before 3 or 4pm. No >> > one really remotes into this machine, it's a Quickbooks machine and >> > only shares out the Intuit QB stuff to the HR persons machine. >> > >> > Any other info I can provide if necessary. I couldn't seem to locate >> > this type of issue in the mailing list archives. >> > >> > -Drew >> > > No ideas from anyone? Now it seems to die without any reports in the > event viewer or logs. > > -Drew > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Download Intel® Parallel Studio Eval Try the new software tools for yourself. Speed compiling, find bugs proactively, and fine-tune applications for parallel performance. See why Intel Parallel Studio got high marks during beta. http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-sw-dev _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users