Hi Ana,
>Did you monitor resource usage during the backups? The list of files generated for accurate backups are
>kept in memory (by both director and client), so this should cause resource use (CPU, memory, etc.) to increase in both hosts.
I did monitor these items earlier, but did not notice a huge drop in usage in these items. However, I was using Zabbix to monitor which takes a reading every so many minutes. It's possible it didn't take a reading when the problem occurred. I should've used something like top instead or VMware's performance tools. I'll take a look at the graphs again...I may have missed it.
However, as usual your suggestions helped! I increased the amount of memory on Director and added more CPUs. I also reduced the number of concurrent jobs from 50 to 25. So far, two days of incremental backups have not produced any deadlock errors. All my backups finished successfully.
Thank you so much for the help! (again) :-) Your advice is always, always so helpful.
-craig