On Wed, 12 Oct 2011 01:33:47 -0700 dobbin <bacula-fo...@backupcentral.com> wrote:
> Good morning, we've got a debian sarge server running bacula-director > 3.0.2.3 > > It's been running for about 4 years now but just recently it's > started developing a problem where it will stop for no apparent > reason. There's no error messages, nothing that I can find in the > logs (although there's masses of data, I could be missing it, I don't > see anything leading up to the stop though) after the second time we > set nagios to monitor the number of processes so we'd get alerted > when it stopped. Sometimes it will go a week without stopping and > sometimes it will stop five times a night, always when running > backups. > > When I restart the bacula director, it runs fine but sometimes if I > re-run the backup that it was running when it failed then it stops > againi, but not always. > > I've just looked at the bacula database and it's 37gb, could that be > the problem? > > Sorry for being so vague but can anyone give me any pointers on where > to look next? I would try running it in foreground with full debug mode turned on. Since the process should be long-running, you'll probably want to run it in a screen session. Something like this should work: $ bacula-dir -f -d 10 -v 2>&1 | tee /path/to/a/log/file I'm not sure about the exact value to use with -d, some experimentation may be required. More hardcore options would be running it under strace or gdb. But strace wouldn't show you a problem with memory allocation for instance and gdb requires presence of debug symbols to provide for useful post-mortem analysis. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ All the data continuously generated in your IT infrastructure contains a definitive record of customers, application performance, security threats, fraudulent activity and more. Splunk takes this data and makes sense of it. Business sense. IT sense. Common sense. http://p.sf.net/sfu/splunk-d2d-oct _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
