On 23 Jan 2007 at 16:44, Paul England wrote:
> We have two boxes, the first box (portia) is dedicated to running the
> bacula-director and storage daemon. The second box (pandora) is
> running the client/file daemon.
>
> The storage daemon (running on portia) is connected to an 8 slot auto
> changer which is configured and works correctly. Each tape is 200GB
> before compression.
>
> On the second box (pandora) is a ~600 gig directory which gets larger by
> ~25 gig each month. These files don't get deleted or modified.
>
> I am trying to setup an incremental bacula job to backup these files to
> tape.
>
> Here are my job and pool resources so far:
>
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> Job {
> Name = "Daily_Archive_Job"
> Client = pandora-fd
> Type = Backup
> Level = Incremental
> FileSet = "Archive"
> Storage = Tape
> Messages = Standard
> Pool = "Daily_Archive_Pool"
> Schedule = "Daily_Cycle"
> Priority = 5
> Write Bootstrap = "/var/lib/bacula/Daily_Archive_Job.bsr"
> }
>
> Pool {
> Name = Daily_Archive_Pool
> Pool Type = Backup
> AutoPrune = no
> Volume Retention = 99y
> Recycle = no
> }
>
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> When I run this job it stops after the tape is full and asks me to use
> the label command to add another volume to the pool.
>
> I ejected the tape, inserted a blank tape, labeled it and the job
> started running again.
>
> It appeared to write data for about 2 hours before giving me an error
> about "Connection timed out".
>
> The two servers are connected by crossover cable at 100 Mbps
> Full-Duplex.
>
> Does anyone have any suggestion where to go from here?
That two hour period reminds of of this:
http://www.bacula.org/rel-manual/Dealing_with_Firewalls.html
See the last section at that URL. You didn't mention operating
systems.... I'm guessing one of them is Windows.
Regardless, try the "Heart Beat Interval both in the File daemon and
the Storage daemon and set an interval of say five minutes."
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