>>>>> On Wed, 02 Nov 2011 11:07:14 -0400, mark bergman said:
> 
> Last night I had two long-running backup jobs (~1TB and ~1.2TB) fail
> with the same error:
> 
>       Fatal error: Error writing data to spool file. ERR=Stale NFS file handle
> 
> The problem is that the spool file is NOT on an NFS mounted disk! The
> spool file is on a GPFS partition. Spool files are limited to 200GB each,
> and there were two jobs running, so the 1TB partition was not full.
> 
> It's difficult to deal with failures at the very end of jobs that take ~24hrs.
> 
> Any suggestions?

"Stale NFS file handle" is the error code ESTALE and usually means that the
nfs server was rebooted.  Maybe GPFS gives it a similar meaning?

__Martin

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