>>>>> On Fri, 7 Dec 2007 09:02:07 -0800 (PST), David Gardner said: > > Hey guys, > > I thought it an artifact last week that the spooler directory was "blown > away" while having trouble with the tape backup job. It happened again last > night without any other apparent issues. > > The first clients files were spooled to /tmp/BUspool directory then put onto > tape. The next client tried to spool files to the same directory but it was > gone and the job failed as did the subsequent client backups. For the > record, the only difference between the daily and weekly backups is that the > Dailies are incrementals stored to disk while the weekly is a full backup to > tape. All jobs use the /tmp/BUspool directory to spool the jobs despite the > settings in bacula-sd.conf (see below). > > I guess I have two questions: > 1) Why is the BUspool folder getting "blown away" on spooled tape backups? and
Possible /tmp is being cleaned on boot or via a cron job? > 2) How is it the disk-to-disk backups know to spool to the BUspool directory? That is very strange. Are you definitely running that configuration? Try changing BUspool to something else to check that it uses that instead. __Martin ------------------------------------------------------------------------- SF.Net email is sponsored by: Check out the new SourceForge.net Marketplace. It's the best place to buy or sell services for just about anything Open Source. http://sourceforge.net/services/buy/index.php _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
