Janco van der Merwe wrote:
> Please correct me if I'm wrong? The way that I understand it is that when
> you set a heartbeat interval in the director, the director will keep the
> connection open, for the specified time, for each client, is that correct?
Please do not top post.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style
The answer to your question is no.
The connection is kept open regardless of heartbeat. Heartbeat is like
a ping. It sends a message along the connection. This convinces the
firewalls/routers that the connection is alive.
See Heartbeat Interval here:
http://www.bacula.org/en/rel-manual/Client_Fi_daemon_Configura.html
> Now if my previous statement is correct, is it necessary to specify a
> heartbeat interval in the FD or doesn't matter where you specify it?
It does matter. I'd start with the FD configuration first.
>
> With regards,
>
> Janco van der Merwe
> Technical Manager
> Dunns Stores (Pty) Ltd
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>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Dan Langille [mailto:dan AT langille DOT org]
> Sent: 05 March 2009 17:38
> To: Janco van der Merwe
> Cc: bacula-users AT lists.sourceforge DOT net
> Subject: Re: [Bacula-users] FD Error On Backup
>
> Janco van der Merwe wrote:
>> Silly question........ what would be an advisable / recommended heartbeat
>> interval for the FD and DIR, respectively?
>
> It's not much overhead. I'd go for 60 seconds.
>
>> With regards,
>>
>> Janco van der Merwe
>> Technical Manager
>> Dunns Stores (Pty) Ltd
>> Switch Board: 011 541 3000
>> Direct: 011 541 3073
>> Cell: 083 291 8536
>> Fax: 0866308032
>>
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Dan Langille [mailto:dan AT langille DOT org]
>> Sent: 03 March 2009 08:06
>> To: Janco van der Merwe
>> Cc: bacula-users AT lists.sourceforge DOT net
>> Subject: Re: [Bacula-users] FD Error On Backup
>>
>> Janco van der Merwe wrote:
>>> Hi All,
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> I have this error which started after hardware upgrade of our MIS system
>>> and I can't fix it. I went through the archive and a lot of people, who
>>> previously had this same problem, suggested that it might be network
>>> hardware i.e. Network cable, switch, router, NIC - related but in my
>>> case I changed the network cable from cat5 to cat6, put the 2 servers on
>>> the same Gb switch and there is no router or firewall between the two -
>>> including the normal OS firewall. I have even gone as far as downgrading
>>> the client from 2.2.8 to 2.2.5 and still the problem persists, any ideas?
>> Look into the heartbeat options. I think you can set it for both FD and
>> SD/dir.
>>
>>>
>>>
>>> System Info:
>>>
>>> Server:
>>>
>>> Bacula Version: 2.2.8
>>>
>>> OS Version: Fedora 8
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Client:
>>>
>>> Bacula Version: 2.2.5
>>>
>>> OS Version: Windows Server 2003 R2
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Notification Mail:
>>>
>>> 03-Mar 02:22 brutus-dir JobId 10659: Start Backup JobId 10659,
>>> Job=MIS2005.2009-03-02_18.00.49 03-Mar 02:22 brutus-dir JobId 10659:
>>> Using Device "LTO"
>>>
>>> 03-Mar 02:28 mis2005-fd JobId 10659: Generate VSS snapshots. Driver="VSS
>>> Win 2003", Drive(s)="CD"
>>>
>>> 03-Mar 03:17 brutus-sd JobId 10659: Job write elapsed time = 00:54:49,
>>> Transfer rate = 87.27 M bytes/second 03-Mar 04:22 brutus-dir JobId
>>> 10659: Fatal error: Network error with FD during Backup: ERR=Connection
>>> reset by peer 03-Mar 04:22 brutus-dir JobId 10659: Fatal error: No Job
>>> status returned from FD.
>>>
>>> 03-Mar 04:22 brutus-dir JobId 10659: Error: Bacula brutus-dir 2.2.8
>>> (26Jan08): 03-Mar-2009 04:22:44
>>>
>>> Build OS: i686-pc-linux-gnu redhat
>>>
>>> JobId: 10659
>>>
>>> Job: MIS2005.2009-03-02_18.00.49
>>>
>>> Backup Level: Full
>>>
>>> Client: "mis2005-fd" 2.2.5 (09Oct07)
>>> Linux,Cross-compile,Win32
>>>
>>> FileSet: "MIS2005" 2009-02-24 12:00:00
>>>
>>> Pool: "Daily" (From Job resource)
>>>
>>> Storage: "PV124-T" (From Job resource)
>>>
>>> Scheduled time: 02-Mar-2009 18:00:00
>>>
>>> Start time: 03-Mar-2009 02:22:40
>>>
>>> End time: 03-Mar-2009 04:22:44
>>>
>>> Elapsed time: 2 hours 4 secs
>>>
>>> Priority: 10
>>>
>>> FD Files Written: 0
>>>
>>> SD Files Written: 25,207
>>>
>>> FD Bytes Written: 0 (0 B)
>>>
>>> SD Bytes Written: 287,038,274,967 (287.0 GB)
>>>
>>> Rate: 0.0 KB/s
>>>
>>> Software Compression: None
>>>
>>> VSS: no
>>>
>>> Storage Encryption: no
>>>
>>> Volume name(s): 000036L3
>>>
>>> Volume Session Id: 260
>>>
>>> Volume Session Time: 1233812348
>>>
>>> Last Volume Bytes: 808,992,156,672 (808.9 GB)
>>>
>>> Non-fatal FD errors: 0
>>>
>>> SD Errors: 0
>>>
>>> FD termination status: Error
>>>
>>> SD termination status: OK
>>>
>>> Termination: *** Backup Error ***
>>
>
>
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