On Wed, Mar 10, 2010 at 11:46 AM, Josh Fisher <jfisher AT pvct DOT com> wrote:
>
> On 3/9/2010 10:02 AM, Bob Hetzel wrote:
>> 3 things that have given me grief due to the windows FD stopping or being
>> unresponsive (but still mysteriously running)...
>> a) buggy network driver--in one case I was able to update the driver to fix.
>>
>
> I'll second that one. I have had several occasions of a buggy NIC driver
> causing the TCP connection to be dropped. In all cases it was fixed by
> an updated driver, or by turning off the NIC driver's power management
> features. Particularly for laptops, it seems unfortunately common for
> the driver to turn off the NIC to save power, even though there is an
> active TCP connection. Web browsers and such simply re-connect, so the
> dropped connection isn't noticed. But TCP connections for Bacula may be
> open for quite some time, so Bacula is more sensitive to network problems.
>
The only reason I'm ruling this out is that the bacula-fd service dies
when it's just sitting idle, usually dying well before the director
makes contact to initiate a backup request. All other network seems
okay and the person that uses Quickbooks never has issues connecting,
etc.
I'll check further but at this time, I've installed the bacula-fd
client on several other machine of same OS and architecture/hardware
and those are not dying. It's starting to point to some service or
process I'm overlooking perhaps killing it or maybe just a bad
install. I might start by reinstalling bacula and see what happens
then.
Thanks,
-Drew
>> b) bad network switch or network port
>> c) infection with a virus/malware that was using up the "max tcp
>> connections". Check the event log for that error.
>> d) regex in the fileset had a bug but that's been fixed around bacula
>> version 2.5 or so. Along the way I learned that regex was slower to
>> process than wilddir and wildfile so I stopped using it for windows
>> filesets anyway.
>>
>> In all cases these issues caused the windows FD to stop during a backup, so
>> I hope this helps but if not, you may have to turn on debugging in the FD
>> and cross your fingers that it happens and logs what went wrong.
>>
>> Bob
>>
>>
>>> From: Drew Bentley<bacula.user AT gmail DOT com>
>>>
>>>>> I can't seem to figure out what's going on because I've never
>>>>> encountered this issue when backing up a Windows XP client with the
>>>>> latest version of Bacula.
>>>>>
>>>>> I have no problems backing up the client but the file daemon
>>>>> unexpectedly dies randomly, usually before a backup is even scheduled.
>>>>>
>>>>> The error I'm seeing in the event log goes something like this:
>>>>>
>>>>> Bacula Error: /home/kern/bacula/k/bacula/src/lib/bsock.c:518
>>>>> Read error from Director daemon:<hostname of my director>:9101:
>>>>> ERR=Unknown error
>>>>>
>>>>> Above that it complains about local computer and registry info or
>>>>> message DLL files to display messages from a remote computer, use
>>>>> /AUXSOURCE=flag to retrieve this description, see Help and Support for
>>>>> more details.
>>>>>
>>>>> Anyone encounter this? Is this machine missing something? I'm not a
>>>>> Windows guy, more of a Unix guy. Everything seems to work okay when I
>>>>> restart the FD service and backups run without issues. I have backups
>>>>> kick off at like 7pm and it always seems to die before 3 or 4pm. No
>>>>> one really remotes into this machine, it's a Quickbooks machine and
>>>>> only shares out the Intuit QB stuff to the HR persons machine.
>>>>>
>>>>> Any other info I can provide if necessary. I couldn't seem to locate
>>>>> this type of issue in the mailing list archives.
>>>>>
>>>>> -Drew
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>> No ideas from anyone? Now it seems to die without any reports in the
>>> event viewer or logs.
>>>
>>> -Drew
>>>
>>>
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