Hello,
On 8/29/2006 7:20 PM, Kern Sibbald wrote:
> On Tuesday 29 August 2006 19:01, Martin Simmons wrote:
>
>>>>>>>On Tue, 29 Aug 2006 17:24:02 +0200 (CEST), Gabriele Bulfon said:
>>>
>>>Yes, I use MaxStartDelay to automatically cancel jobs that are no more in
>
> time, so that I'm sure that Bacula is ready for the new job of the next
> night.
>
>>>Probably you're right about it: MaxStartDelay is causing cancel of jobs.
>
> The reason is that now I discovered that jobs are VERY slow during the night
> (1000Kb/s), compared to how they run if I schedule them during the day
> (8000Kb/s). This is causing a too long backup and causing the cancel of jobs.
>
>>>What is strange is: why is not Bacula sending me reports about this
>
> canceled jobs?
>
>>>When, for example, I put a wrong tape, I get a lot of "Intervention
>
> needed", followed by a final list of "Canceled" reports, when the
> MaxStartDelay has been reached.
>
>>>Why not in this case?
>>
>>Yes, I would say that is a bug if no notification is generated (as long as
>
> the
>
>>Messages resource allows it).
I haven't investigated this, but I *think* Gabriele and Martin might be
correct with assuming a bug. Reason?
I've seen the same, but this will need more investigation, I think.
Should be easily reproduced.
>
> I suspect that the messages are generated at the daemon level as there is
> probably no job associated with them. If the daemon messages are not
> properly configured as was the case in some of the older default releases,
> they will simply be bit bucketed.
>
> Basically to ensure that you "see" daemon messages, you need to ensure that
> each daemon (particularly the Director) has a "Messages = xxx" in the daemon
> resource (Director { } for the director, ...).
Hmm, unless I'm really wrong I have these resources everywhere...
Arno
> Regards,
>
> Kern
>
>
>>__Martin
>>
>>
>>
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
>>>Da: Martin Simmons <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>>>A: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>>>Cc: [email protected]
>>>Data: 25 agosto 2006 22.15.13 CEST
>>>Oggetto: Re: [Bacula-users] Help with jobs disappearing!
>>>
>>>>>>>On Fri, 25 Aug 2006 10:32:37 +0200, Gabriele Bulfon said:
>>>>
>>>>Hello,
>>>>I am sending again this S.O.S. because I had no response about it.
>>>>
>>>>I have a Bacula setup to run 5 jobs each night.
>>>>They're scheduled at 23:00, 23:05, 23:10, 23:15, 23:20, so that bacula
>>>>will queue each job to run after the previous one is done.
>>>>The full queue is normally finished around 6:00am.
>>>>I also have setup a maximum delay, so that jobs are canceled around
>>>>12:00 next morning, if for some reasons they're waiting (missing tape or
>>>>other problems), and everything can restart normally next night.
>>>>I started this one year ago, with a clean postgres db, and new labeled
>>>>tapes into a library.
>>>>I had many months of correct backups in the following job list:
>>>>"solaris10" - "wserver" - "iserver" - "adhoc" - "catalog"
>>>>
>>>>During July 2006 I noticed that the "catalog" job was missing from my
>>>>daily report.
>>>>I looked into the bacula log file, and I had absolutely no trace about
>>>>the catalog job.
>>>>Inside the log, I could see only the "OK" sequence of "solaris10" -
>>>>"wserver" - "iserver" - "adhoc".
>>>>
>>>>At the end of July I noticed that also the "adhoc" job was missing....
>>>>Inside the log, I could see only the "OK" sequence of "solaris10" -
>>>>"wserver" - "iserver".
>>>>
>>>>In the middle of August I noticed that even the "iserver" job was
>>>>missing!.....
>>>>Inside the log, I could see only the "OK" sequence of "solaris10" -
>>>>"wserver".
>>>>
>>>>...jobs are disappearing one by one....with no trace.
>>>>I noticed that inside the "bacula/working" folder, I had the "bsr" files
>>>>with dates corresponding to the last time they were executed:
>>>>Jul 16 BackupCatalog.bsr (1st disappeared job)
>>>>Jul 27 adhoc.bsr (2nd disappeared job)
>>>>Aug 18 iserver.bsr (3rd disappeared job)
>>>>Aug 25 wserver.bsr (this is still running)
>>>>Aug 25 solaris10.bsr (this is still running)
>>>>
>>>>Using bconsole and "show jobs", I can see all the jobs correctly setup.
>>>>If I log into the system at midnight, and use bconsole "cancel" to see
>>>>the running/waiting jobs (obviously aborting the cancel operation), I
>>>>can see all the jobs are there waiting to be processed.
>>>>When I log into the system next morning, I can see no trace of the
>>>>missing jobs....
>>>>
>>>>I experienced this problem one year ago on the same setup, so I
>>>>scratched the postgres DB, restarted from a clean db relabeling each
>>>>tape, and everything worked fine again until July 2006...
>>>>
>>>>How can I investigate this problem?! Please HELP!!!!
>>>
>>>I would start by checking the units of your MaxStartDelay value, just in
>
> case
>
>>>it is causing cancellation.
>>>Did the time taken by the wserver job change much on the day the iserver
>
> was
>
>>>first missing (presumably Aug 19) compared to Aug 18?
>>>__Martin
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