Hello, On 13.09.2005 18:55, Mark Bober wrote:
Had an interesting thing happen. Our firewall, for whatever reason, drops connections at 300sec. of inactivity by default.
To avoid broblems with broken network hardware :-) the Heartbeat Interval setting in the configuration is a good choice.
I'd been backing up a few hosts outside our firewall, and once I started using the disk spool, they were getting 'hung'. What happened was such : once the disk file started spooling to tape, the Client and the StorageD stopped talking with each other - if it took more than 300 seconds, our firewall droped that connection. The spooling finished, but nothing ever reported back. The client thought the job was done, the StorageD thought the job was done, a bscan on the tape revealed everything was on the tape. Only the Director thought the job was still running, and it took several minutes after issuing a 'cancel' for it to clear out the job (giving it an error status, even though it all worked) I'd be curious to see if taking a client off-line while the disk-to-tape spooling was going on would result in the same behavior. You've already got the data, and it went to tape OK - it shouldn't result in an error if you can't talk to the Client anymore, I'd think?
The design of bacula does make it an error - the idea is that a job can only be considererd good if all parties acknowledge the work was done correctly.
Although, in case of spooling, I think yuo've got a point, but if the FD didn't wait for the SD to report "Everything done" how could it know that the job really is written to tape completely? As bacula works today, spooled data can not be despooled a second time, or even be used as a bacula volume...
Arno
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