Bacula-users

Re: [Bacula-users] per-Client Heartbeat Interval

2009-11-30 13:40:56
Subject: Re: [Bacula-users] per-Client Heartbeat Interval
From: Arno Lehmann <al AT its-lehmann DOT de>
To: bacula-users AT lists.sourceforge DOT net
Date: Mon, 30 Nov 2009 19:37:17 +0100
Hello,

30.11.2009 16:20, Tilman Schmidt wrote:
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> I have a Bacula 3.0.2 server (director and SD) with 18 backup clients
> (FDs), all but two of them in the same LAN. The two remaining ones are
> reached via VPN connections which seem to have the timeout problem
> (not honouring the keepalive setting) which according to the FAQ may be
> cured by setting a Heartbeat Interval.
> 
> In the 3.x manual, the Heartbeat Interval directive is only listed as
> applicable to the Director and Storage resources.

It is also documented in the *client* configuration, i.e. the 
bacula-fd.conf on the remote machines would be a good location to put it.

> The descriptive text
> for the Director resource seems to indicate that it might be applicable
> to the Client resource, too, though, and indeed my director does not
> complain about seeing it there, but it doesn't seem to have the desired
> effect, either. That is, I added "Heartbeat Interval = 120 s" to the
> Client resource of one of the clients experiencing the connection drops,
> ran the bconsole "reload" command which didn't complain, and then ran a
> test job which, as before, terminated with a "Connection reset by peer"
> error exactly two hours after it was started.
> 
> Questions:
> - - Is specifying the Heartbeat Interval directive within a Client
>   resource supposed to work?

Don't know, and I've got too much stuff to do to check in the code... 
you could try that yourself, or ask on -devel if nobody here has a 
definitive answer.

> - - Is a "reload" from bconsole sufficient to activate it, or must
>   the director be restarted to see its effect?

If it's supposed to work, a reload should be sufficient. But trying a 
restart wouldn't hurt, I guess...

Cheers,

Arno

> Thanks,
> Tilman
> 
> - --
> Tilman Schmidt
> Phoenix Software GmbH
> Bonn, Germany
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