Bacula-users

Re: [Bacula-users] bacula-dir needs growing amount of memory when stuck

2009-04-19 16:09:45
Subject: Re: [Bacula-users] bacula-dir needs growing amount of memory when stuck
From: John Drescher <drescherjm AT gmail DOT com>
To: Andreas Thienemann <andreas AT bawue DOT net>, bacula-users <Bacula-users AT lists.sourceforge DOT net>
Date: Sun, 19 Apr 2009 16:04:56 -0400
On Sun, Apr 19, 2009 at 3:03 PM, Andreas Thienemann <andreas AT bawue DOT net> 
wrote:
> On Sat, 18 Apr 2009, Dan Langille wrote:
>
>> I no longer see the original detail, but I suspect there is one job
>> running, and it has spooled attributes waiting to be written.  That is y
>> theory.
>
> Running Jobs:
> Writing: Incremental Backup job analytics.2009-04-11_23 JobId=1229
> Volume=""
>    pool="Default" device="Drive-1" (/dev/nst1)
>    spooling=0 despooling=0 despool_wait=0
>    Files=0 Bytes=0 Bytes/sec=0
>    FDReadSeqNo=6 in_msg=6 out_msg=4 fd=6
> Writing: Incremental Backup job amanda.2009-04-11_23 JobId=1230 Volume=""
>    pool="Default" device="Drive-2" (/dev/nst0)
>    spooling=0 despooling=0 despool_wait=0
>    Files=0 Bytes=0 Bytes/sec=0
>    FDReadSeqNo=6 in_msg=6 out_msg=4 fd=7
> ====
>
> Jobs waiting to reserve a drive:
> ====
>
> [...]
>
> Device "Drive-1" (/dev/nst1) is not open.
>    Device is BLOCKED waiting to create a volume for:
>       Pool:        Default
>       Media type:  Ultrium 1
>    Drive 0 is not loaded.
> Device "Drive-2" (/dev/nst0) is not open.
>    Device is BLOCKED waiting to create a volume for:
>       Pool:        Default
>       Media type:  Ultrium 1
>    Drive 1 is not loaded.
> ====
>

Well 2 drives are blocked because you have no appendable or usable
media. Any idea on how long it has been waiting for you to add tapes?
Perhaps the memory problem is that the messages are growing. Have you
typed messages in bconsole recently?

John

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