On Wed, Dec 03, 2008 at 06:35:51PM +0000, Allan Black wrote: > Jason Dixon wrote: > > On Thu, Nov 27, 2008 at 01:01:12AM +0100, Kjetil Torgrim Homme wrote: > >> Jason Dixon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >>> On Wed, Nov 26, 2008 at 11:59:41AM +0100, Kshatriya wrote: > >>>>> recently. Since then, we've encountered frequent failures of the > >>>>> catalog backup job which reads from the local FD. They always > >>>>> fail with a "Packet size too big" error, which seems to be more > >>>> Check if you are using a different MTU size than the rest of your > >>>> hosts in the network. > >>> This is only for the localhost FD. Traffic should never hit a > >>> physical interface. > >> I don't know if it is relevant, but the MTU for lo0 on Solaris is 8232 > >> I wouldn't use "localhost" anyway -- I prefer to use globally unique > > Good idea, I've put this into testing. I'll report back our results in > > a few days. > > I don't think this is the problem - 'Packet size too big from XYZ' is a > Bacula error, caused by the SD rejecting a message from the FD. Data from > the FD to SD is encoded in 2 packets; a 'header', which contains (among > other things) the size of the second packet, which contains the data. > The error is caused by the size being out of range (max is 1,000,000). > > Earlier in the backup there was a read error from the FD (No data > available). The ENODATA is generated internally by Bacula when it reads 0 > bytes (a read returns <= 0, and errno == 0). This would suggest to me that > there is some sort of problem with the FD. > > Is it possible that the generation of the catalog backup is taking so long > that the connection between the FD and SD is timing out?
Wouldn't it fail consistently in that case? It hasn't failed the last two nights. -- Jason Dixon OmniTI Computer Consulting, Inc. [EMAIL PROTECTED] 443.325.1357 x.241 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
