Hi, On 3/29/2007 4:47 PM, Juliet Kemp wrote: > Hi, > > I need to do a very large restore - the filesystem in question is 1TB & > it was about 80% full last I looked. > > When I use bacula-console, and ask for a restore of the last backup from > this client, it generates the initial long list of jobs, starts to build > the file list, and then hangs (after about 10 of the + marks). > > Could this be caused by the machine on which Bacula is running being > unable to cope with the load of database requests?
Yes. > (The database itself > is on another machine, which seems OK; I'm backing up to an > autochanger.) Should I just try leaving it even longer? Yes. > It seems to > move at a slow but perceptible speed briefly, then stops. top shows > bacula-dir as using 95%+ of CPU & 90%+ of memory; previously when I've > tried this I've also seen "defunct" bacula-dir processes appearing in > the process list. Bad things... if your Bacula server runs out of memory during the tree-building process, it will crash. As a workaround you could add more swap, but that doesn't make things faster, only allows Bacula to finish. > I've restored to this filesystem from Bacula before, but it wasn't so > full then (& the Bacula 'server' machine wasn't so old!). > > Any thoughts/suggestions on how I can get this data back? bextract might help. Or put more memory into your server. > I have also tried > > bls -V ABK708L "Overland 2000" > > to see if I can get a manual listing of the relevant tape (barcode label > ABK708L), but that takes a long time & then fails saying "/dev/st0 in > use". Any thoughts on that? Sure... first, better use the non-rewinding tape devices for Bacula, i.e. /dev/nst0. To access the tape drive outside of Bacula, you must unmount if using the console. > I'm running 1.36.2 on Debian sarge (I'm aware it's old but it's also > what's available in sarge!). You *really* should consider upgrading :-) Arno > > Regards, > Juliet > -- IT-Service Lehmann [EMAIL PROTECTED] Arno Lehmann http://www.its-lehmann.de ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys-and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
