Discovered at about 5 AM on Saturday morning that NetBackup kills NFS on HEIWA when it’s reading the deep directory tree of Wusage reports.
Somehow, deep into the reports tree for Wusage, NetBackup’s tar program interacts badly with NFS and makes NFS from HEIWA to PAX die, thus killing the machine. It takes about 1.5 hours to get to that point, making a backup that starts at midnight kill HEIWA at about 1:30. I got in at 2:30 and manually kicked off another backup to watch it. at about 4:30 it died and I got to see where.
Have disabled backups on HEIWA until I figure out what to do about this.
Posted by Rowan Littell at November 17, 2003 12:28 PM