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This is what you said Martin Simmons >>>>>> On Thu, 10 Aug 2006 08:41:10 -0700 (MST), Scott Ruckh said: >> >> I have been running bacula Version: 1.38.8 (compiled from source) for a >> few months now. I am running CentOS 4.3 on an x86_64 platform. >> >> I am backing up to disk (external USB storage). >> >> This has been running fine for the past few months. >> >> This week the system has crashed hard (no kernel panic) 2 times. I can >> not find anything of value in any of the system logs. It is a complete >> hang of the system. >> >> I am running VMware Workstation on this server. The reason I mention >> this >> is because the only significant change to the system this week is that >> more VM instances have been running on the server this week. All day >> long >> the Virtual Machines and the physical system plays nicely with one >> another. Then, within 2 minutes of seeing this bacula message Volume >> "INCR-0003" previously written, moving to end of data, the system hangs. >> The above message is seen write after the script defined in the >> RunBeforeJob (for the physical system) directive is run (and completed >> successfully). >> >> It is a presumed 2 minutes because that is the time from the above >> message >> to the last message written to the /var/log/messages file. > > Perhaps you can configure syslogd to send these messages to the console as > well? The screen is completely gone so I could not see any console messages and this server is not connected to a console server. > > >> >> I can not find any other jobs running at that time then would be any >> different then the jobs running throughout the day. >> >> Anyone have any suggestions on things I could tune that would prevent >> the >> system from crashing? > > Is the USB disk for anything other than backups? If not, maybe the > problem > the problem is USB-related. Can you do a backup to a non-USB disk? > Thanks for the feedback. I do not really have that available disk space for backups on a non-USB device (this environment is for home office). When I am only running 1-2 virtual machines everything works fine, or at least has run fine in the past. The same has been true this week. Now twice this week when 3 Virtual machines were running the system crashed nearly at the same time (right after the RunBefore script has been completed). As backups seem to work when when more memory is available (less VM's running) it does not appear to be a USB issue (at least the USB Drive). Possibly a conflict with the USB sharing between physical machine and virtual machine. Also, as the only time the system crashes is at the start of the backup process, I do not think hardware is failing. Maybe conflicting as stated above. Thanks for the feedback. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job easier Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache Geronimo http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=120709&bid=263057&dat=121642 _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
