On Sunday 24 July 2005 02:27, Joe Kraft wrote:
> Kern Sibbald wrote:
> > On Saturday 23 July 2005 22:22, Phil Stracchino wrote:
> >>Kern Sibbald wrote:
> >>>You might make sure you have the latest drivers/firmware for the
> >>> ethernet card in your Windows system that is giving you problems. At
> >>> least one user recently found that this was the cause of his
> >>> disconnects with a Windows machine -- he had a NVidia ethernet card.
> >>
> >>Heh. Funny you should say that -- as I just posted, I just found that
> >>*MY* nVidia gigabit NIC appeared to be causing the problem. When I
> >>switched the machine's connection to its other onboard NIC, which is a
> >>Marvell Yukon PCI-E gigabit NIC, as a test (not expecting it to affect
> >>anything), the problem vanished and the backup is now running perfectly
> >>happily.
> >>
> >>So the FD thought the SD was pulling the plug, and the SD thought the FD
> >>had stopped sending data, and the real cause was that the NIC in between
> >>was dropping the connection....
> >
> > Hmmm. It looks like NVidia would do better to concentrate on graphics
> > cards and forget trying to network.
> >
> > This is probably the solution to a lot of frustration expressed in the
> > past by quite a number of Bacula users having Windows machines that did
> > not want to communicate correctly.
> >
> > I'll add this to the Windows chapter of the manual ...
>
> I know it would have helped me understand what was going on with my
> setup, although I had a pretty good idea what was going on since I was
> running the backup through a wireless connection.
>
> What would the possibility be of trying to reopen the connection and
> resending the file that was on the way when the connection is interrupted?
Once the comm line is dropped, there is a *serious* problem, so Bacula (the
FD) fails the job. I believe this is the most conservative solution the
least likely to cause corruped data.
If you want to restart the job, you can do so with directives in the Director.
--
Best regards,
Kern
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