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On Wednesday 14 December 2005 04:12, Rick Knight wrote: > Kern Sibbald wrote: > >Hello, > > > >If you are able to reproduce this easily, could you turn on level 100 by > >putting -d100 on the command line when you start it, then capture the > > output. This may help me understand what is going on. > > > >I've tried everything I can to duplicate this, but all my tests run fine. > > > >Hmmm. Normally, it wouldn't be the OS that is causing problems, but I'm > > open to almost any suggestion -- the goal being to fix it ... > > > >On Tuesday 13 December 2005 22:07, James Peverill wrote: > >>I am also getting this error since upgrading to 1.38 from the 1.36 > >>branch... been trying to figure out why for a few days now. > >> > >>I am also running slackware 10... I wonder if this is related. Not > >>running 2.4 kernel though, running 2.6.11.12 right now. I am backing up > >>to disk, not tapes. Manually scheduled jobs run just fine, and > >>automatic jobs run sometimes (the first job)... but most of the time > >>they block indefinitely with "waiting to reserve a device". > >> > >>I figured I had just screwed up a configuration file somehow, but I have > >>tweaked my configuration files with no improvement. Maybe this is tied > >>to a package in slackware 10? Any other users running slackware 10 with > >>1.38 successfully? > >> > >>james peverill > >> > >>Richard W. Knight wrote: > >>>Kern Sibbald wrote: > >>>>On Tuesday 13 December 2005 13:43, Rick Knight wrote: > >>>>>Kern Sibbald wrote: > >>>>>>Hello, > >>>>>> > >>>>>>On Monday 12 December 2005 19:35, Richard W. Knight wrote: > >>>>>>>Hi all, > >>>>>>> > >>>>>>>A couple of weeks ago I upgraded my Bacula installation from 1.34 to > >>>>>>>1.38.1. I made a few other changes at the same time and everything > >>>>>>>has > >>>>>>>been working well since. Yesterday I decided to upgrade to 1.38.3. I > >>>>>>>built from source using the same configuration options that I used > >>>>>>> to build 1.38.1 with the addition of "--with-python". The build > >>>>>>> went OK, > >>>>>>>no errors. I stopped 1.38.1 and started 1.38.3. Everything seemed > >>>>>>>to be > >>>>>>>OK. I ran a couple of small test backups and there were no errors > >>>>>>>so I > >>>>>>>assumed that the upgrade went fine. Last night the scheduled > >>>>>>>backup ran > >>>>>>>and after the first job, instead of continuing on to the next job, > >>>>>>>I got > >>>>>>>this message ... > >>>>>>> > >>>>>>>12-Dec 07:29 MyJob-SMB-sd: Job MyJob.2005-12-12_01.05.01 waiting to > >>>>>>>reserve a device. > >>>>>>> > >>>>>>>This morning, when I first saw this message, I just did a mount from > >>>>>>>bconsole and the job continued, I have bacula configured for 6 > >>>>>>>jobs per > >>>>>>>media and the tape wasn't full so the job should have just started > >>>>>>>as it > >>>>>>>hallways has. Now it's time to backup up the catalog, to file, and > >>>>>>>I'm > >>>>>>>getting the same message. > >>>>>>> > >>>>>>>I have an HP DDS2 drive, no changer, running on Slackware 10. I'm > >>>>>>>using > >>>>>>>the same conf files the worked fine on 1.38.1. Can anyone tell me > >>>>>>> why I'm now getting this error message? > >>>>>> > >>>>>>You are not by any chance running on a 2.4 kernel with /lib/tls? > >>>>>> > >>>>>>Could you send me your bacula-dir.conf and bacula-sd.conf along > >>>>>>with the > >>>>>>job report that shows the jobs blocking? > >>>>>> > >>>>>>>Thanks, > >>>>>>>RickKnight > >>>>>>> > >>>>>>> > >>>>>>>------------------------------------------------------- > >>>>>>>This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Do you grep through > >>>>>>>log > >>>>>>>files for problems? Stop! Download the new AJAX search engine that > >>>>>>>makes searching your log files as easy as surfing the web. > >>>>>>> DOWNLOAD SPLUNK! > >>>>>>> http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=7637&alloc_id=16865&op=click > >>>>>>> _______________________________________________ > >>>>>>>Bacula-users mailing list > >>>>>>>Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net > >>>>>>>https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users > >>>>> > >>>>>Thanks Kern, > >>>>> > >>>>>I am running a 2.4.26 kernel, but I don't know about /lib/tls. I don't > >>>>>have a /lib/tls on my system. How can I tell? > >>>> > >>>>Try: > >>>> > >>>> ls -l /lib/tls > >>>> > >>>>If it exists, then that could explain why it *appears* that Bacula is > >>>>not seeing some pthread broadcasts that would allow it to continue. > >>>>This is a bit of a long shot, but at this point, I need to consider > >>>>all possibilities ... > >>>> > >>>>In the mean time, I'll take a careful look at your config. Perhaps I > >>>>have missed something important that I can add to my test cases. All > >>>>my tests here succeeded perfectly ... > >>>> > >>>>By the way, getting the message that a job is waiting to reserve a > >>>>drive is not in itself bad. This happens in my test case. However, at > >>>>some point when the drive is available, the job should continue as it > >>>>does in my test case. > >>>> > >>>>>Also, the .conf files are attached along with the log. > >>>>> > >>>>>Thanks again, > >>>>>RickKnight > >>> > >>>Kern, > >>> > >>>I just got another job log email. Something I noticed is a clock > >>>difference between the Director and File daemons. The two lines below > >>>are from this mornings log (also attached). Could that be causing a > >>>problem? > >>> > >>>12-Dec 19:29 knight-linux-SMB-sd: Job Knight-Linux.2005-12-12_01.05.01 > >>>waiting to reserve a device. > >>>13-Dec 04:33 knight-linux-fd: DIR and FD clocks differ by 676 seconds, > >>>FD automatically adjusting. > >>> > >>> > >>>Thanks again, > >>>Rick Knight > >>> > >>>------------------------------------------------------------------------ > >>> > >>>12-Dec 04:29 knight-linux-SMB-dir: Start Backup JobId 559, > >>>Job=Knight-Linux.2005-12-12_01.05.01 12-Dec 04:29 knight-linux-SMB-sd: > >>>Job Knight-Linux.2005-12-12_01.05.01 waiting to reserve a device. 12-Dec > >>>05:29 knight-linux-SMB-sd: Job Knight-Linux.2005-12-12_01.05.01 waiting > >>>to reserve a device. 12-Dec 07:29 knight-linux-SMB-sd: Job > >>>Knight-Linux.2005-12-12_01.05.01 waiting to reserve a device. 12-Dec > >>>11:29 knight-linux-SMB-sd: Job Knight-Linux.2005-12-12_01.05.01 waiting > >>>to reserve a device. 12-Dec 19:29 knight-linux-SMB-sd: Job > >>>Knight-Linux.2005-12-12_01.05.01 waiting to reserve a device. 13-Dec > >>>04:33 knight-linux-fd: DIR and FD clocks differ by 676 seconds, FD > >>>automatically adjusting. 13-Dec 04:22 knight-linux-SMB-sd: Volume > >>>"DailyIncr-0011" previously written, moving to end of data. 13-Dec 04:22 > >>>knight-linux-SMB-sd: Ready to append to end of Volume "DailyIncr-0011" > >>> at file=4. 13-Dec 04:44 knight-linux-SMB-dir: Bacula 1.38.3 (09Dec05): > >>> 13-Dec-2005 04:44:48 JobId: 559 > >>> Job: Knight-Linux.2005-12-12_01.05.01 > >>> Backup Level: Incremental, since=2005-12-11 01:07:20 > >>> Client: "knight-linux-fd" > >>>i686-pc-linux-gnu,slackware,Slackware 9.0.0 FileSet: > >>>"Knight-Linux" 2005-11-21 21:06:17 > >>> Pool: "DailyPool" > >>> Storage: "HPSureStoreDAT-8" > >>> Scheduled time: 12-Dec-2005 01:05:00 > >>> Start time: 12-Dec-2005 04:29:22 > >>> End time: 13-Dec-2005 04:44:48 > >>> Priority: 10 > >>> FD Files Written: 262 > >>> SD Files Written: 262 > >>> FD Bytes Written: 675,038,414 > >>> SD Bytes Written: 675,072,191 > >>> Rate: 7.7 KB/s > >>> Software Compression: None > >>> Volume name(s): DailyIncr-0011 > >>> Volume Session Id: 3 > >>> Volume Session Time: 1134331562 > >>> Last Volume Bytes: 2,190,220,863 > >>> Non-fatal FD errors: 0 > >>> SD Errors: 0 > >>> FD termination status: OK > >>> SD termination status: OK > >>> Termination: Backup OK > >>> > >>>13-Dec 04:44 knight-linux-SMB-dir: Begin pruning Jobs. > >>>13-Dec 04:44 knight-linux-SMB-dir: No Jobs found to prune. > >>>13-Dec 04:44 knight-linux-SMB-dir: Begin pruning Files. > >>>13-Dec 04:50 knight-linux-SMB-dir: Pruned Files from 2 Jobs for client > >>>knight-linux-fd from catalog. 13-Dec 04:50 knight-linux-SMB-dir: End > >>> auto prune. > > Kern, > > My backups are still running so I can't restart bacula with the -d 100 > yet. The "runAfter" statement is only in the catalog job, not in > Knight-Linux-SMB or Knight-Linux, both of which come before Catalog. > Also,when I look at the director status I get a new message, "562 > Increme Knight-Linux.2005-12-13_01.05.01 is waiting on max Storage > jobs". I can't find a max Storage jobs directive anywhere. Should I have > one? Could lack of "max Storage jobs" be the problem? I'll go search the > bacula docs for theat directive. I assume you found the problem here. If not, yes, to run multiple simultaneous jobs, you must have "Maximum Concurrent Jobs" set in a number of places, in particular in the director's storage resource. > > Thanks again, > Rick Knight -- Best regards, Kern ("> /\ V_V ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Do you grep through log files for problems? Stop! Download the new AJAX search engine that makes searching your log files as easy as surfing the web. 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