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 > > --- > Unix guy, Mac head, Rails wannabe, > computer science alumnus, usability > guesspert and overall big time visionary > > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge > Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK & win great prizes > Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world > http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100&url=/ > _______________________________________________ > Bacula-users mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users > -- Arno Lehmann IT-Service Lehmann Sandstr. 6, 49080 Osnabrück www.its-lehmann.de ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK & win great prizes Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100&url=/ _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
