I noticed that on some of my large clients servers, crash plan keeps crashing. Somewhat symbolic in it's name :) This not only happened in the front end GUI but also the backend. and normally if the server had very very big backup sets of a few TB or more. I reviewed the log files and have found that when crash plan runs it tries to compile a list of changes that have been made. If this catalog was very big it would crash. If you stop crash plan $ sudo launchctl unload /Library/LaunchDaemons/com.crashplan.engine.plist
If you modify launchd item $ sudo pico /Library/LaunchDaemons/com.crashplan.engine.plist and modify the following string <string>-Xmx512m</string> to <string>-Xmx3072m</string> then restart the launchd item $ sudo launchctl load /Library/LaunchDaemons/com.crashplan.engine.plist The backups will now work. What we have now done is allocate 3GB of memory to the application v’s the 512MB that were allocated to it originally. |
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