Bacula-users

Re: [Bacula-users] 11TB backup run out of memory and dies

2010-06-09 11:56:53
Subject: Re: [Bacula-users] 11TB backup run out of memory and dies
From: John Drescher <drescherjm AT gmail DOT com>
To: bacula-users AT lists.sourceforge DOT net
Date: Wed, 9 Jun 2010 11:47:40 -0400
> I have a Scalar i500 library with 5 drives and 135 slots. I have a Red Hat 5 
> server with a 1gb nic. The setup works fine for backups on most systems. The 
> problem I have is a NFS share with 11TB of data that I need to backup. Every 
> time I run this job it will write about 600GB of data to a tape and then the 
> server runs out of memory and remounts the root filesystem as read only. Has 
> anyone else had this before? Or what can I try to fix this?
>

How big is your spool? Have you tried making it much smaller if its >
100GB? Can you increase your swap? Do you have attribute spooling on?

John

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