Re: [Bacula-users] Solaris "Packet size too big" failures

On Dec 23, 2008, at 11:53 AM, Conor Edberg wrote:

>
> On Dec 9, 2008, at 2:36 PM, Jason Dixon wrote:
>
>> On Tue, Dec 09, 2008 at 09:26:38PM +0000, Allan Black wrote:
>>> Jason Dixon wrote:
>>>> Alas, I spoke too soon.  The CatalogBackup job failed again last
>>>> night,
>>>> usual symptoms.
>>>
>>> OK. need to find out what the FD is doing. I would recommend:
>>>
>>> truss -o filename -f -a -e -v all -w 2 -p <FD pid>
>>>
>>> Is it possible to run the catalog backup during the day, by hand?
>>> That way you could avoid leaving the truss running (and collecting
>>> data) all night.
>>
>> I've run it 6 times today, no failures yet.  Frustrating.  Here are
>> the
>> results showing all the previous failures, then the successes today.
>>
>> -bash-3.2$ echo 'list jobs' | sudo /opt/bacula/sbin/i386/bconsole |
>> grep BackupCatalog | grep '| f '
>> |    60 | BackupCatalog            | 2008-11-08 00:36:12 | B    | F
>> |          1 |     965,869,568 | f         |
>> |   116 | BackupCatalog            | 2008-11-11 23:14:05 | B    | F
>> |          1 |     614,727,680 | f         |
>> |   286 | BackupCatalog            | 2008-11-22 23:14:28 | B    | F
>> |          1 |   5,278,400,512 | f         |
>> |   298 | BackupCatalog            | 2008-11-23 23:14:32 | B    | F
>> |          1 |   4,723,965,952 | f         |
>> |   336 | BackupCatalog            | 2008-11-26 23:14:30 | B    | F
>> |          1 |   3,979,280,384 | f         |
>> |   361 | BackupCatalog            | 2008-11-28 23:16:11 | B    | F
>> |          1 |   2,101,936,128 | f         |
>> |   385 | BackupCatalog            | 2008-11-30 23:13:21 | B    | F
>> |          1 |   3,863,216,128 | f         |
>>
>> -bash-3.2$ echo 'list jobs' | sudo /opt/bacula/sbin/i386/bconsole |
>> grep BackupCatalog | grep '2008-12-09'
>> |   486 | BackupCatalog            | 2008-12-09 16:46:51 | B    | F
>> |          1 |   3,183,911,677 | T         |
>> |   487 | BackupCatalog            | 2008-12-09 16:55:42 | B    | F
>> |          1 |   3,183,912,220 | T         |
>> |   488 | BackupCatalog            | 2008-12-09 17:03:22 | B    | F
>> |          1 |   3,183,912,724 | T         |
>> |   489 | BackupCatalog            | 2008-12-09 17:18:03 | B    | F
>> |          1 |   3,183,913,233 | T         |
>> |   490 | BackupCatalog            | 2008-12-09 17:23:26 | B    | F
>> |          1 |   3,183,913,740 | T         |
>> |   491 | BackupCatalog            | 2008-12-09 17:29:53 | B    | F
>> |          1 |   3,183,914,246 | T         |
>>
>>
>> --  
>> Jason Dixon
>> OmniTI Computer Consulting, Inc.
>> jdixon AT omniti DOT com
>> 443.325.1357 x.241
>>
>
>
>
> I'm seeing similar problems to the one Jason described.  However, in
> addition to the 'Packet Size too big' failure, I see a variety of
> other error messages as well.  FD, SD, and dir are all running on the
> same machine, disk to disk backup. Some examples of the failures:

Do these thoughts help?

"Well, long ago, there was a problem with packet sizes, but that was a  
very old
version.  If he is running a recent Bacula version, then he is running a
Bacula with the standard networking parameters, it is most likely, he  
has a
bad network (bad card, network wiring, switch, OS driver, ...)."

I know some do not apply to your situation.

-- 
Dan Langille
http://langille.org/




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