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Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula jobs causing VM server reboot & consequent job fail

2011-03-24 06:34:18
Subject: Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula jobs causing VM server reboot & consequent job fail
From: Hugo Silva <hugo AT barafranca DOT com>
To: bacula-users AT lists.sourceforge DOT net
Date: Thu, 24 Mar 2011 10:10:20 +0000
On 03/24/11 08:49, farmershort wrote:
> Hi All,
> 
> I have, what I think, Is a fairly obscure bacula issue.
> 
> my bacula-dir server is a CentOS 5.5 server, running as a VM on MS Hyper-V, 
> on a windows 2008R2 host. I'm managed to successfully backup a number of 
> windows servers, and I'm happy that all the client-fd stuff is setup 
> correctly.
> 
> however, I had scheduled the first big test of this new bacula system a 
> couple of days ago - and asked it to back up about 350GB from each of 2 
> servers - at the same time. Both of these backups should run concurrently, 
> and back up to the same esata disk.
> 
> I managed to get this to happen yesterday, by manually running both jobs from 
> bconsole, but for some reason, whenever they run from schedule, then cause 
> the VM to reboot. If you watch it happening, you see the VM go into "saving" 
> mode, then "saved".... then some minutes later it reboots.
> 
> What's also wierd, is that one of the jobs still finishes successfully, but 
> the other one fails by timing out after just over 2 hours. the timeout errors 
> just says: fatal error: error reading data from fd.
> 
> Does anyone have any ideas where/how to start diagnosing this one?
> 
> Thanks
> 
> Adam
> 
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Dunno about the reboot, but I ran into the backup getting killed after 2
hours with Windows clients recently.

What did it for us was using Heartbeat Interval on both the SD and
windows FD, afair.

Hope that helps.

Best regards,


Hugo

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