On 3/9/2010 10:02 AM, Bob Hetzel wrote: > 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. >
I'll second that one. I have had several occasions of a buggy NIC driver causing the TCP connection to be dropped. In all cases it was fixed by an updated driver, or by turning off the NIC driver's power management features. Particularly for laptops, it seems unfortunately common for the driver to turn off the NIC to save power, even though there is an active TCP connection. Web browsers and such simply re-connect, so the dropped connection isn't noticed. But TCP connections for Bacula may be open for quite some time, so Bacula is more sensitive to network problems. > 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 > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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
