On Thu, Jul 16, 2009 at 4:28 PM,
teksupptom<bacula-forum AT backupcentral DOT 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

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