On Wed, Mar 10, 2010 at 11:46 AM, Josh Fisher <jfis...@pvct.com> wrote: > > On 3/9/2010 10:02 AM, Bob Hetzel wrote: >> 3 things that have given me grief due to the windows FD stopping or being >> unresponsive (but still mysteriously running)... >> a) buggy network driver--in one case I was able to update the driver to fix. >> > > I'll second that one. I have had several occasions of a buggy NIC driver > causing the TCP connection to be dropped. In all cases it was fixed by > an updated driver, or by turning off the NIC driver's power management > features. Particularly for laptops, it seems unfortunately common for > the driver to turn off the NIC to save power, even though there is an > active TCP connection. Web browsers and such simply re-connect, so the > dropped connection isn't noticed. But TCP connections for Bacula may be > open for quite some time, so Bacula is more sensitive to network problems. >
The only reason I'm ruling this out is that the bacula-fd service dies when it's just sitting idle, usually dying well before the director makes contact to initiate a backup request. All other network seems okay and the person that uses Quickbooks never has issues connecting, etc. I'll check further but at this time, I've installed the bacula-fd client on several other machine of same OS and architecture/hardware and those are not dying. It's starting to point to some service or process I'm overlooking perhaps killing it or maybe just a bad install. I might start by reinstalling bacula and see what happens then. Thanks, -Drew >> b) bad network switch or network port >> c) infection with a virus/malware that was using up the "max tcp >> connections". Check the event log for that error. >> d) regex in the fileset had a bug but that's been fixed around bacula >> version 2.5 or so. Along the way I learned that regex was slower to >> process than wilddir and wildfile so I stopped using it for windows >> filesets anyway. >> >> In all cases these issues caused the windows FD to stop during a backup, so >> I hope this helps but if not, you may have to turn on debugging in the FD >> and cross your fingers that it happens and logs what went wrong. >> >> Bob >> >> >>> From: Drew Bentley<bacula.u...@gmail.com> >>> >>>>> I can't seem to figure out what's going on because I've never >>>>> encountered this issue when backing up a Windows XP client with the >>>>> latest version of Bacula. >>>>> >>>>> I have no problems backing up the client but the file daemon >>>>> unexpectedly dies randomly, usually before a backup is even scheduled. >>>>> >>>>> The error I'm seeing in the event log goes something like this: >>>>> >>>>> Bacula Error: /home/kern/bacula/k/bacula/src/lib/bsock.c:518 >>>>> Read error from Director daemon:<hostname of my director>:9101: >>>>> ERR=Unknown error >>>>> >>>>> Above that it complains about local computer and registry info or >>>>> message DLL files to display messages from a remote computer, use >>>>> /AUXSOURCE=flag to retrieve this description, see Help and Support for >>>>> more details. >>>>> >>>>> Anyone encounter this? Is this machine missing something? I'm not a >>>>> Windows guy, more of a Unix guy. Everything seems to work okay when I >>>>> restart the FD service and backups run without issues. I have backups >>>>> kick off at like 7pm and it always seems to die before 3 or 4pm. No >>>>> one really remotes into this machine, it's a Quickbooks machine and >>>>> only shares out the Intuit QB stuff to the HR persons machine. >>>>> >>>>> Any other info I can provide if necessary. I couldn't seem to locate >>>>> this type of issue in the mailing list archives. >>>>> >>>>> -Drew >>>>> >>>>> >>> No ideas from anyone? Now it seems to die without any reports in the >>> event viewer or logs. >>> >>> -Drew >>> >>> >> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ >> Download Intel® Parallel Studio Eval >> Try the new software tools for yourself. Speed compiling, find bugs >> proactively, and fine-tune applications for parallel performance. >> See why Intel Parallel Studio got high marks during beta. >> http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-sw-dev >> _______________________________________________ >> Bacula-users mailing list >> Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net >> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users >> > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Download Intel® Parallel Studio Eval > Try the new software tools for yourself. Speed compiling, find bugs > proactively, and fine-tune applications for parallel performance. > See why Intel Parallel Studio got high marks during beta. > http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-sw-dev > _______________________________________________ > Bacula-users mailing list > Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Download Intel® Parallel Studio Eval Try the new software tools for yourself. Speed compiling, find bugs proactively, and fine-tune applications for parallel performance. See why Intel Parallel Studio got high marks during beta. http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-sw-dev _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users