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Mingus Dew wrote:
> Hi all,
>      Been using Bacula 2.4.2 on Solaris 10_x86 for almost 2 years now.
> Recently tape backups have been entering into a state that I can only
> describe as "limbo".
>
> If I check the status of the director, I may see something like
>
> Running Jobs:
>  JobId Level   Name                       Status
> ======================================================================
>  22649 Increme  RMAN_A_Lvl1_Tape.2009-02-17_13.30.36 is running
>  22650 Increme  RMAN_B_Lvl1_Tape.2009-02-17_13.30.38 is waiting on max
> Storage jobs
>  22651 Increme  RMAN_PROD_Lvl1_Tape.2009-02-17_14.00.40 is waiting on
> max Storage jobs
>  22652 Increme  RMAN_BI_Lvl1_Tape.2009-02-17_14.00.42 is waiting on max
> Storage jobs
>  22653 Increme  RMAN_COG_Lvl1_Tape.2009-02-17_14.00.44 is waiting on max
> Storage jobs
>
> If I check the status of the running jobid or the tape device, it will
> show this:
>
> Used Volume status:
> B00046 on device "Ultrium-TD3" (/dev/rmt/0cbn)
>     Reader=0 writers=0 devres=0 volinuse=1
> ====
>
> Data spooling: 0 active jobs, 0 bytes; 80 total jobs, 47,799,329,608 max
> bytes/job.
> Attr spooling: 0 active jobs, 0 bytes; 80 total jobs, 40,616 max bytes.
>
> Basically, tape is mounted and reserved, job is showing a "is running"
> status, but nothing is happening. Because I lack any monitoring of how
> long jobs have been running,
> these have sat for as many as 3 days without changing status, erroring,
> or completing. This backs up subsequent jobs that have been waiting for
> the tape device.
> The only commonality that I've seen is that they are tape jobs. Other
> than that, the level, fileset, etc. are different.
>
> On one occasion when I cancelled one of these long running jobs, I got
> an error
>
> Hostname    : BUG!
> Date    : 2009-02-11 14:00:30
> Severity    : err
>
> unregister_watchdog_unlocked called before start_watchdog
>
>
> Hostname    : BUG!
> Date    : 2009-02-11 14:00:30
> Severity    : err
>
> bacula-dir[20200]: [ID 702911 daemon.error] backup4.director: ABORTING
> due to ERROR in watchdog.c:206
>
> If anyone has any advice on what might be happening, I would really
> appreciate your responses.

Check to see what, if anything, your backend database is doing. You
don't tell us what it is, so I can't be any more specific.

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