Hi Shon, we recently had many problems with our director running on debian squeeze (using the backports packages for 5.2.6 I think).
We started running bacula in foreground mode (via daemontools) with debugging enabled (using the "-d 250" switch). You will get extensive logging (e.g. every SQL query). At least on debian, bacula comes with a pre-configured way to email you a traceback upon a crash. You can find more information on that here: http://www.bacula.org/5.0.x-manuals/en/problems/problems/What_Do_When_Bacula.html Hope that helps! BTW: In our case, our director started crashing when we enabled accurate backups with some older clients. It kept crashing after we disabled that feature - apparently some parts of the database got messed up during those crashes and bacula sometimes tried to look for volumes in wrong pools or in wrong storage devices (and either crashed or got stuck). We 'fixed' that by creating new pools and shifting backups over to the new pool and as well by running the dbcheck tool: http://www.bacula.org/manuals/en/utility/utility/Volume_Utility_Tools.html#SECTION002120000000000000000 Am 04.02.2014 16:25, schrieb Mingus Dew: > Dear All, > I'm running bacula-5.2.13 on Solaris 10 x86. Recently the > bacula-dir has begun segfaulting and crashing on my server, but I have > no idea why. > I realize this is a pretty general question and I'll respond with > as much additional information as I can, but need a starting point. > Please someone suggest how I might debug this. The time of crash > doesn't seem to be predictable, but I do notice that before the crash, > the director becomes unresponsive to bconsole connection requests, > suggesting that Max Concurrent Jobs has been reached. Increasing that > number would be an obvious solution, but I'm not sure what the correct > upper limit for that would be as I've already had issues in the past on > Solaris with a "too many open files" issue that would crash the Storage > Daemon > > Sincerely, > Shon > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Managing the Performance of Cloud-Based Applications > Take advantage of what the Cloud has to offer - Avoid Common Pitfalls. > Read the Whitepaper. > http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=121051231&iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk > > > > _______________________________________________ > Bacula-users mailing list > Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users > -- Mit freundlichen Grüßen / With kind regard Rudolph Bott ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Managing the Performance of Cloud-Based Applications Take advantage of what the Cloud has to offer - Avoid Common Pitfalls. Read the Whitepaper. http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=121051231&iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
