Hi,
14.10.2008 15:43, Stefan Sorin Nicolin wrote:
> Hi,
>
> back in june I asked about a problem with the SD failing to move on
> after encountering connection problems with the clients (no response)
> http://marc.info/?l=bacula-users&m=121240588225534&w=2
>
> Now I've hit this nasty situation again. Bacula got stuck for 3 whole
> days (for a production system this a very bad) because there was
> nobody around to insert a tape when requested.
That situation is a bit different to the one outlined above.
> Every other jobs piled
> up and waited for the first to fail. Is there _ANY_ way to solve this?
Yes.
> It seems though that at least one similar scenario is annoying other
> people too:
> http://marc.info/?l=bacula-users&m=118772113014249&w=2
>
> Relevant facts:
> Bacula version 2.4.2 runing on Debian.
> bacula-dir.conf contains:
> FDConnectTimeout = 3 min
> SDConnectTimeout = 5 min
>
> All clients configs (bacula-fd.conf) contain:
> SDConnectTimeout = 2 minute
>
> I am aware of the "ClientConnectWait" and "MaximumOpenWait" directives
> (that I didn't change) and I wonder why the heck the defaults do not
> kick in when the time exceeds?
I'm not sure about those timeouts... the Job timeouts at least seem to
be broken, but this *might* be fixed with the devel version - I'm unsure.
> My bacula setup feels brittle - I don't trust it anymore :(
>
> I'd be very grateful for any help.
What I usually do is to set up job concurrency, so other jobs can run
while the SD waits for a client to connect.
That does not solve the problem when the SD waits for another volume,
though.
Arno
> Thanks
>
> Stefan Sorin Nicolin
> http://nicolinux.org
>
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