On Thu, Jul 07, 2005 at 01:47:30PM +0200, Arno Lehmann wrote:
> Hello,
>
> today, I think I found a problem with baculas handling of disk space.
>
> The situation:
> I use spooling, and had one large job running overnight. The spool space
> is not big enough to hold the complete job, so the job is run in slices:
> spool until disk is full, despool, repeat until done.
>
> The spool directory and baculas working directory are on the same partition.
>
> When the regular backup jobs for today were about to start that
> partition was full.
> The result: The scheduled jobs didn't run, are marked with status
> "Error" and I received an error email without any contents. Nothing in
> the console log as well.
>
> I assume that the log messages could not be created because the disk
> space wasn't available, the same with the information mails.
>
> I also assume that the jobs were not run because they couldn't create
> their spool files. In 'status dir' I have entries like this:
>
> >Terminated Jobs:
> > JobId Level Files Bytes Status Finished Name
> >========================================================================
> ...
> >2610 Full 5 113,578 Error 07-Jul-05 08:37 BackupMail
>
> While I can understand that behaviour, I'd like to know three things:
> First, has anybody else encountered this behaviour?
> Second, are my assumptions correct?
> Third, shouldn't this behaviour be changed? One solution would be to
> hold a job when there's not enough spool space when it's started, I'd say.
>
> And
> #version
> goblin-dir Version: 1.36.3 (22 April 2005)
>
> #status storage=DLT
> Connecting to Storage daemon DLT at goblin:9103
>
> goblin-sd Version: 1.36.3 (22 April 2005) i586-pc-linux-gnu suse 8.1
>
> Spool space is on a LVM partition across several SCSI disks, no SCSI or
> filesystem errors according to the system log. And I know that more
> spool space _is_ desirable...
>
> Arno
I think the obvious answer here is, "Don't put your working directory
and your spool space on the same filesystem." It almost guarantees you
will run into disk-full conditions.
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