Hi, I have an installation that was previously using version 2.4.4 and was upgraded to 5.0.3 with good success. However, there was a previous problem with the SLES9 x64 clients that would intermittently fail the jobs due to bsock errors. So the error has carried forward from 2.4.4 to 5.0.3 and has not fixed the fault by upgrading to the latest. The errors would occur with a little as a few MB through to a couple of 100MB. The jobs could be full or incremental using either tape or disk pool. More often the backup will fail with only 40-50 MB backed up - so the job starts but fails quite quickly but waits for network timeout values to exceed to report the failure and cancelling the job. The client base is all version 5.0.3 as is the SD and DIR services. We have approximately 80 clients where 90 % are SLES10 (x64 and a couple of 32 bit versions) and they work without error, 8% are Windows 2003 and work without error but the two SLES9 x64 builds have BOTH exhibited this intermittent network timeout issue. If I run a manual backup (instead of scheduled) during a non-maintenance window then the same client backs up correctly without error (tape and disk pool). It has ONLY been the two SLES9 x64 platforms that have errored this way, all other clients do NOT error at all. I have checked default TCP timeout values which are all 7200 seconds but my feeling is that this is NOT the fault. This maybe a threading issue or a concurrency issue specific to Bacula (either 2.4.4 or 5.0.3) with SLES9 x64 or this could even be a MTU issue but this doesn't explain why it works 50% of the time. The majority of the machines are virtual and as such share the physical hosts so networking shouldn't be an issue per-se. I would appreciate any opinions or experience with this type of error as this is proving to be difficult to repeat manually. Errors... Error: bsock.c:393 Write error sending 65536 bytes to Storage daemon:mybaculaserver.mylocaldomain:9103: ERR=Broken pipe Fatal error: backup.c:1024 Network send error to SD. ERR=Broken pipe
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