On Thu, Jul 16, 2009 at 4:28 PM, teksupptom<bacula-fo...@backupcentral.com> wrote: > > Hello, > > We've been intermittently having an issue with backups failing due to the > error "Spool block too big". It's happened exactly 10 times since 4/27/09. It > generally happens during large backups (900GB+). > > The most recent error happened after the data had been spooled, and was being > written to tape. These usually occur overnight so I don't always get to see > what's going on, but this one happened during my normal shift. Prior to it > happening I had noticed that the SD status showed the correct data spool file > size, but showed 0 bytes for the attribute spool size. I double checked the > directory we use to store the attribute spool file (same directory where the > mail files are kept, but different from where we spool the data), and there > was a 6GB+ attribute spool file for the job. > > Not sure if this is what other people are seeing when this error occurs, but > I'm hoping it can help in tracking down the source. >
Have you tried just limiting the spool size to something small. I mean I use a 5 to 10GB spool even for 3TB jobs. John ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Enter the BlackBerry Developer Challenge This is your chance to win up to $100,000 in prizes! For a limited time, vendors submitting new applications to BlackBerry App World(TM) will have the opportunity to enter the BlackBerry Developer Challenge. See full prize details at: http://p.sf.net/sfu/Challenge _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
