>>>>> On Wed, 11 Jan 2012 14:21:52 -0500, Honia A said:
> 
> I'm backing up a handful number of Unix boxes, they all get backed up very
> quickly but we can't access them due to the BackupCatalog job being very
> slow. When I read online, I see people said it's because of the database
> size getting larger and larger.
>  
> I cancel the backup catalog job and all the servers become accessible. This
> is the configuration for catalog:
>  
> # This is the backup of the catalog
> FileSet {
>   Name = "Catalog"
>   Include {
>     Options {
>       signature = MD5
>     }
>     File = "/var/lib/bacula/bacula.sql"
>   }
> }
>  
> All backups finish around 5 AM but all the servers remain inaccessible until
> 8:30 or so. The last job running is that backup job so I thought the process
> getting slower and slower everyday might have something to do with the size
> of th ebacula.sql file.

The bacula.sql you showed in your first email was written at 05:23, so it
seems unlikely that Bacula was doing anything at 8:30.

Please post the log output from the BackupCatalog job.

Also, can you describe exactly what you mean by inaccessible?

__Martin

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