Bacula-users

Re: [Bacula-users] Win32 FD / Write error sending N bytes to Storage daemon

2011-06-07 12:51:05
Subject: Re: [Bacula-users] Win32 FD / Write error sending N bytes to Storage daemon
From: Yann Cézard <yann.cezard AT univ-pau DOT fr>
To: bacula-users AT lists.sourceforge DOT net
Date: Tue, 07 Jun 2011 18:48:09 +0200
Le 07/06/2011 18:10, Josh Fisher a écrit :
> Another problem I see with Windows 7 clients is too aggressive power 
> management turning off the Ethernet interface even though it is in use 
> by bacula-fd. Apparently there is some Windows system call that a 
> service (daemon) must make to tell Windows not to do power management 
> while it is busy. I don't know what versions of Windows do that, other 
> than 7 and Vista, but it is a potential problem.
There is no power management on our servers :-D

I just ran some tests this afternoon, I create a new bacula server
with lenny / bacula 2.4.4, and downgrade the client to 2.4.4, to
be sure that all was fine with the same fileset, etc.
The test was OK, no problem, the job ran fine.
Than I tested again with our production server (5.0.3) and
the 2.4.4 client => network error, failed job
I upgraded the test bacula server to squeeze / bacula 5.0.2,
and still the 2.4.4 fd on the client => No problem !

So it seems that the problem is clearly in "network hardware" on the
server side.

We will do some more tests on the network side (change
switch port, change wire, see if no firmware update is available...),
but now I really doubt that the problem is in bacula, nor it can be
resolved in it.

The strange thing is that the problems are only observed with win32
clients. Perhaps the Windows (2003) TCP/IP stack is less fault tolerant than
the linux one in some very special case ?

Regards,

-- 
Yann Cézard  -  infrastructures - administrateur systèmes serveurs
Centre de ressources informatiques    -     http://cri.univ-pau.fr
Université de Pau et des pays de l'Adour -  http://www.univ-pau.fr


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