---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: John Drescher <dresche...@gmail.com> Date: Mon, May 28, 2012 at 1:20 PM Subject: Re: [Bacula-users] SD Bug "User specified spool size reached" To: Sean Cardus <scar...@zebrahosts.net>
On Mon, May 28, 2012 at 9:38 AM, Sean Cardus <scar...@zebrahosts.net> wrote: > Hi, > >> On a Bacula installation with a CentOS 6.2 (64 bit) server >> running Bacula 5.2.6 director and SD with an HP LTO3 autoloader >> and backing up some twenty-odd machines of various platforms, >> all the jobs report "User specified spool size reached" >> much too early, currently after 1.45 GB instead of the really >> specified size of 50 GB. Example log excerpt: > [..] >> Scanning the log it looks like the storage daemon decreases its >> spool size limit every time a backup job crashes. The last time >> it used the full 50 GB was here: > > I've been seeing exactly the same behaviour here (CentOS 4.9, Bacula SD > 5.0.3) for quite some time. However, until I saw your email I didn't > correlate the max spool size reducing with each time a job crashes. I can > also confirm that whenever a job crashes, the max spool size drops. > > The only workaround I can see at the moment is restarting the SD... > I would be interested in seeing why jobs are crashing and possibly submit bug reports for that. I have run 30 thousand or so jobs at work and I do not see very many job crashes. John -- John M. Drescher ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Live Security Virtual Conference Exclusive live event will cover all the ways today's security and threat landscape has changed and how IT managers can respond. Discussions will include endpoint security, mobile security and the latest in malware threats. http://www.accelacomm.com/jaw/sfrnl04242012/114/50122263/ _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
