[Bacula-users] Re: [Bacula-devel] Severe problem: director hangs in production system

2005-07-17 Thread Kern Sibbald
Hello Volker, About the only thing I can think of is that you have a stale or bad NFS connection and you are trying to write the bootstrap file to another machine with the bad NFS link -- or perhaps the other machine is just down. In that case, Bacula will hang forever. Don't blame me -- I

[Bacula-users] Re: [Bacula-devel] Severe problem: director hangs in production system

2005-07-17 Thread Phil Stracchino
On Sun, Jul 17, 2005 at 03:57:54PM +0200, Kern Sibbald wrote: Hello Volker, About the only thing I can think of is that you have a stale or bad NFS connection and you are trying to write the bootstrap file to another machine with the bad NFS link -- or perhaps the other machine is just

[Bacula-users] Re: [Bacula-devel] Severe problem: director hangs in production system

2005-07-17 Thread Kern Sibbald
Hello Phil, Yes, now that you mention it, I remember having looked at these options a few years ago. I changed my hard into a soft and ended up having frequent NFS failures during long file transfers. I finally had to go back to using hard mounts. Perhaps things have improved since my trials

[Bacula-users] Re: [Bacula-devel] Severe problem: director hangs in production system

2005-07-17 Thread Volker Sauer
Hi Kern, the bacula-server runs independently of NFS mounts, sorry to say that. The bsr files are copied by a cron-job to NFS and all the bacula files and mysql are on local disks. The machine which jobs caused the hangs is actually independent from NFS, too - at least I do not write or read

Re: [Bacula-users] Re: [Bacula-devel] Severe problem: director hangs in production system

2005-07-17 Thread Kern Sibbald
Hello Volker, On Sunday 17 July 2005 21:29, Volker Sauer wrote: Hi Kern, the bacula-server runs independently of NFS mounts, sorry to say that. The bsr files are copied by a cron-job to NFS and all the bacula files and mysql are on local disks. The machine which jobs caused the hangs is