Hi, On 6/6/2007 10:57 PM, Kyle Marsh wrote: > Howdy, > > I'm working on a bacula setup for my college and I have found that > when a client goes down, whether it's firewalled, turned off, or > otherwise disconnected from the network, bacula seems to hang for > about 40 minutes
Unusual timeout, in my experience... I'd expect nearly instantaneous job failure or the IT-related two hours... > before deciding that the client isn't there and > stopping. This could become problematic if we have several machines > down each night and could cause substantial problems if some backups > don't start until people are back working. Is there a directive that > allows me to specify something sane as the timeout period, and where > does it need to go? I prefer leaving the timeouts to Bacula, and instead use "Run Before Job" scripts to ping the clients. Concurrent jobs are a reasonable solution against long-running or stalled jobs. Arno > Thanks, > > Kyle Marsh > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > This SF.net email is sponsored by DB2 Express > Download DB2 Express C - the FREE version of DB2 express and take > control of your XML. No limits. Just data. Click to get it now. > http://sourceforge.net/powerbar/db2/ > _______________________________________________ > Bacula-users mailing list > Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users -- IT-Service Lehmann [EMAIL PROTECTED] Arno Lehmann http://www.its-lehmann.de ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by DB2 Express Download DB2 Express C - the FREE version of DB2 express and take control of your XML. No limits. Just data. Click to get it now. http://sourceforge.net/powerbar/db2/ _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users