Mondo creating HUGE files in clientmqueue

[pcorrigan]

I know this is not a PIAF issue, but perhaps someone else has seen this. I have a cron job to run mondoarchive to create a DVD iso image file. The problem is that mondo appears to be creating hugh files in /var/spool/clientmqueue that are filling all available disk space. The image file is about 826 MB, but the files in clientmqueue are over 170 GB! If I run the script manually from webmin I don't have the problem.

Here is my cron script:

/usr/sbin/mondoarchive -OVn nfs://orp-pdx-backup:/vol1/pbx_backup -N -E /media/usb -S /tmp/mondo -T /tmp/mondo -s 4480

Any help would be appreciated. Thanks.

 

[wardmundy]

Do you have other drives attached via USB? These either need to be excluded from the backup set or dismounted during the backup operation.

 

[pcorrigan]

I have a USB hard disk attached, but it is excluded:

-E /media/usb

I did not exclude my NFS mount point, however. I will do that now. Thanks.

What I don't understand is why I'm building huge files in a sendmail queue.

 

[Bitnetix]

/var/spool/sendmailqueue is a "pre-queue" for sendmail to put things before sendmail comes along and delivers them. It sounds like you don't have sendmail configured properly to run through and deliver mail. I'm guessing that they keep building on the one before it, saying that there's a problem of some sort, and that here's the log file. Since the log file includes the previous mail message (I'm not being very clear, but I hope you understand), then it becomes a container within a container, and you see ever increasing files in the sendmailq.

Try /usr/lib/sendmail -q -v to see if that clears them out. Or just delete them.

 

[pcorrigan]

I can delete them, but that is not the primary problem. The problem is 170+ GB appearing in the queue overnight, filling all available disk space, requiring a reboot. Last night it was two huge files and the night before it was a single 171GB file. These are not normal email messages.

 

[Bitnetix]

So what is the content of one of these files, then? If they're not normal email messages, then something is putting them there and putting data of some sort in them. What does that data look like (be brief)?