If the host is unreachable to begin with you should get an error 48,
if it becomes unreachable during the backup, you'd have to show us
your configuration times/timeout settings..

I am trying to think if I ever shut a box down while it was being
backed up and recalling the timeout/etc.., I do not remember a
situation like that unfortuantely.


On 5/10/06, Brooks, Jason <brooksje AT longwood DOT edu> wrote:
> Last night, we had some of our servers powered down for some early
> morning power maintenance.  I have been looking at the logs for the
> backups to analyze failures.  One thing I have noticed is that for the
> powered off servers, it took over 3 hours for the job to fail.  Given
> that the server is unavailable, and looking at my Timeout settings on
> the Master, why would it take 3 hours, rather than 5 minutes?  Is there
> a way to expedite the failing of jobs for unreachable hosts?
>
> Thanks,
> Jason
>
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