Bacula-users

Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula FD fails after 51 files

2010-07-06 04:30:01
Subject: Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula FD fails after 51 files
From: Uwe Schuerkamp <uwe.schuerkamp AT nionex DOT net>
To: Dan Langille <dan AT langille DOT org>
Date: Tue, 6 Jul 2010 10:26:51 +0200
On Fri, Jul 02, 2010 at 12:02:25PM -0400, Dan Langille wrote:
> On 7/2/2010 12:00 PM, Mike Carlson wrote:
> > On 06/28/2010 07:01 PM, Dan Langille wrote:
> >> On 6/28/2010 12:53 PM, Mike Carlson wrote:
> >>> Hello Bacula user's list,
> >>>
> >>> I'm having some trouble with a bacula client. The backup to a storage
> >>> node (disk based storage) fails at the same file.
> >> I suspect the time. Always at 1 hour 30 minutes? Firewall or switch
> >> timeout ?
> >>
> > Hey Dan, and List,
> >
> > I wanted to follow up with this, Dan was correct, there was an issue
> > with ALL traffic between the server and client, and the networking folks
> > here are working to resolve it.
> >
> > Thanks a lot, I'm glad it wasn't software related!
> 
> Good.  To be fair, any time a back fails after the same length of time, 
> it is usually a network issue.  Seen it mant times before.  Have fun.
> 

It also sometimes helps (if you're on Linux and don't want to wait for
the network folks to resolve and firewall issues ;-) to set the
tcp_keepalive_time on the client to some smaller value:

echo 600 >/proc/sys/net/ipv4/tcp_keepalive_time 

All the best, 

Uwe 

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