>>>>> On Wed, 07 Jun 2017 21:50:30 +0200, Ian Douglas said: > > Hi all > > Lately I've been getting errors like > > Could not stat "/mnt/nas1stuff/": ERR=Host is down > > where I'm trying to back up files from a NAS box (FreeNAS), and the target > folder is mounted on this box, as was recommended to me on this list. > > So the folder does not get backed up. > > If I run the job manually then it works. > > Other succeeding jobs run right after the failed one work okay. > > Oddly enough I tried from the command line and results were puzzling: > > ==================== > ~ $ ls /home/ian/nas1stuff/ > ls: cannot access '/home/ian/nas1stuff/': Host is down > ~ $ cd > ~ $ cd /home/ian/nas1stuff/ > ~/nas1stuff $ ls /home/ian/nas1stuff/ > > and that worked... so why would I get a Host is down message?
It could be too slow rather than down. Does a second use of "ls /home/ian/nas1stuff/" succeed, without the "cd /home/ian/nas1stuff/"? > So now trying to determine where the problem is... > > 1. Bacula ? Unlikely since you can demonstrate it with cd and ls. > 2. FreeNAS ? > 3. something on my system doing the SMB stuff ? Both possible. Have you checked the syslogs? > I don't know if it is related but lately I've noticed a lot of up/down > traffic > between this box and the three NAS boxes... even when I'm not actually doing > anything on the NAS boxes. Am just worried it's some malware encrypting my > drives. This box is Linux, the three NAS boxes are FreeNAS (== FreeBSD based). You could use tcpdump or Wireshark to see what kind of traffic is being sent. See also https://askubuntu.com/questions/910058/updates-broke-cifs-smb-mounts-in-16-04#920279 __Martin ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Check out the vibrant tech community on one of the world's most engaging tech sites, Slashdot.org! http://sdm.link/slashdot _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
