"File size limit exceeded" error thrown while bacula executes a pre-script
Issue
- Bacula throws an error when trying to execute a script before the backup job to dump the database to a file and the script fails when dump file size reaches 4GB.
Environment
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Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5
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The script bacula is trying to execute contains the following command line:
pg_dump -c | bzip2 -c |dd of='$wd/$args{db_name}-CDM-$year-$mon-$mday-$hour-$min-$sec.sql.bz2
baculauser has a file size limit set to 20G inlimits.conf:
$ grep bacula limits.conf | grep fsize
bacula - fsize 20971520
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