>>>>> On Wed, 02 Nov 2011 11:07:14 -0400, mark bergman said: > > Last night I had two long-running backup jobs (~1TB and ~1.2TB) fail > with the same error: > > Fatal error: Error writing data to spool file. ERR=Stale NFS file handle > > The problem is that the spool file is NOT on an NFS mounted disk! The > spool file is on a GPFS partition. Spool files are limited to 200GB each, > and there were two jobs running, so the 1TB partition was not full. > > It's difficult to deal with failures at the very end of jobs that take ~24hrs. > > Any suggestions?
"Stale NFS file handle" is the error code ESTALE and usually means that the nfs server was rebooted. Maybe GPFS gives it a similar meaning? __Martin ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ RSA(R) Conference 2012 Save $700 by Nov 18 Register now http://p.sf.net/sfu/rsa-sfdev2dev1 _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
