Bacula-users

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

2010-06-10 09:03:50
Subject: Re: [Bacula-users] 11TB backup run out of memory and dies
From: Bruno Friedmann <bruno AT ioda-net DOT ch>
To: bacula-users AT lists.sourceforge DOT net
Date: Thu, 10 Jun 2010 15:01:17 +0200
On 06/09/2010 05:29 PM, ekke85 wrote:
> 
> Hi
> 
> 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?
> 
> Frederik
> 

And as / is mounted ro I also suspect the batch-enabled creating a too big file 
somewhere in /tmp that fill's up your /
causing all the trouble. as 11TB is lot's of file I suppose.



-- 

     Bruno Friedmann

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