>>>>> On Sat, 30 May 2009 21:35:06 +0200, Johan van Vliet said:
>
> Hi...
>
> A couple of weeks ago posted the message below. Today I upgraded the system
> to OpenBSD 4.5 (Flashboot) and installed "lsof" inorder to tackle to
> problem.
>
> If I run "lsof" every few minutes with a full backup I see one line that
> gets my attention:
> COMMAND PID USER FD TYPE DEVICE SIZE/OFF NODE NAME
> ...
> bacula-di 1248 bacula 14u VREG 17,0 30902272 6173 /
> (/dev/rd0a)
> ...
>
> This is exactly the size of the space that I'm "missing" in root but I have
> no clue why bacula-dir does this. As I said in my previous mail: the working
> directory for bacula(-dir) is: /mnt/archive/working
>
> Any advice on how to trace this futher and avoid this "writing" to root?
The lsof output (slash followed by the device in parens) means that the file
was deleted but still open, so perhaps it is a temporary file used by Sqlite?
Is it always fd 14? Is it open only when a backup is running? If so, try
using ktrace/kdump to see what opens or unlinks it.
__Martin
>
> J.
>
> > Hi,
> >
> > I have been using bacula/SQLite for a couple of months now (almost a year)
> > and it has been running fine up till a week ago. I run a schedule of:
> > daily incremental
> > weekly (sunday) differential
> > monthly full.
> >
> > On March 1st I upgraded my OS (OpenBSD 4.3 build as a flashboot image) to
> > OpenBSD 4.4 (also flashboot)
> >
> > Since then my differentials (incrementals are fine) fail. They result in an
> > SQL error causes by an disk/IO error. When I run dmesg on the bacula
> > machine
> > apparently the disk was full:
> > uid 250 on /: file system full
> >
> > However I have configured bacula to use working on /mnt/archive. So it
> > should not even try to write in /. The /mnt/archive (I know: bad name) has
> > plenty of space (30% in use)
> >
> > What could be writing outside of /mnt/archive/working ? I can only find one
> > reference to /tmp in the config file and that is for a restore job. Not the
> > case here.
> >
> > It is possible/likely that my Old 4.3 ramdrive image had a bit more space
> > in
> > /.
> >
> > Extra info;
> > Hardware : PC Engine (so no memory upgrade possible)
> > OS : Flashboot (mindrot.org) OpenBSD 4.4 (so ramdrive OS)
> > Bacula : 2.2.8 (latest OpenBSD)
> > Database : Sqlite
> > Storage : File (USB disk mounted at /mnt/archive)
> >
> > $ df -h
> > Filesystem Size Used Avail Capacity Mounted on
> > /dev/rd0a 19.3M 16.0M 3.3M 83% /
> > mfs:18385 14.5M 10.1M 3.6M 73% /usr/local
> > /dev/sd0a 458G 131G 305G 30% /mnt/archive
> > /dev/wd0a 3.7G 13.5M 3.5G 0% /flash
> >
> > J.
>
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