Blonko!

If you have a storage daemon in your bacula setup which all of the sudden seems to take longer to store the backups; there is an easy solution. Just restart it.

I have this a couple of times per year, on different servers, setups, …: the storage daemon seems to slow down the longer it runs; or the more jobs it did, or… I never had the time to investigate this in-depth, and I don’t intend to do this. The solution however is very simple, just restart the service. Take care, as most of the time, i have to kill it hard (-9) as there is a thread/process stuck (and that is probably the reason of the slowdown).

Why this post you say? Today, I had the same situation again, and tried to search for it. I had no stuck process this time, but tried several search phrases on google, and didn’t find anyone with the same problem and sympthoms.

By the way, I have this problem on machines with all flavors of Debian, with plenty of versions of Bacula, both director, storage daemon and file daemons. Our main setup has over 250 simultanious backups per night.

Vandaag was ik een backup aan het bekijken, en kreeg het volgende in m’n status:

 Volume:      Windows-0666

Dit moet toch een slecht voorteken zijn.