I was running a very large archival backup and about 20 hours into the backup I ran out of tapes that had the recycle flag set. I updated the flags and purged the first tape. The system then loaded the next tape and continued the backup. The SD (or FD), however, never signaled the DIR that the job had resumed and it stayed in "waiting for appendable Volume" (JS_WaitMedia) for 518415 secs (6 days) and then the DIR killed the job with the messages:
04-Mar 17:17 gannon-dir: LiveArchiveJob.2007-02-26_17.16.43 Error: Watchdog sending kill after 518415 secs to thread stalled reading File daemon. 04-Mar 17:17 gannon-dir: LiveArchiveJob.2007-02-26_17.16.43 Fatal error: Network error with FD during Backup: ERR=Interrupted system call 04-Mar 17:17 gannon-dir: LiveArchiveJob.2007-02-26_17.16.43 Fatal error: No Job status returned from FD. The SD, FD and DIR are all running on the same node so network problems between them did not cause the timeout. The wait status seems to come from the SD and is reported by the DIR, but the kill message from the DIR indicates that not being able to communicate with the FD was the reason it killed the job. I've looked at some of the code and the best candidate that I've found so far for where a problem might cause this is in filed/heartbeat.c:sd_heartbeat_thread or somewhere in the acquire/mount code that a message isn't being sent back to the DIR. Due to the long runtime of the backup it's not practical for me to try to duplicate the problem exactly. I will try to create a reproducer with a smaller backup set once I have the archive backup completed. Any insight on the possible cause(s) would be greatly appreciated. ---- Alan Davis Senior Architect Ruckus Network, Inc. 703.464.6578 (o) 410.365.7175 (m) [EMAIL PROTECTED] alancdavis AIM ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys-and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
