> From: Primoz Kolaric [mailto:primoz.kola...@sinergise.com] > Sent: Monday, November 08, 2010 4:39 PM > To: bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net > Subject: Re: [Bacula-users] Backup fails when creating a large backup > > > > > Nop, there's no nat. It's a linux based router/firewall. > > > > If the job is always failing at about the same elapsed time, it's > probably the connection being dropped by the firewall. > > > > Search the docs for heartbeat and consider adding one or both of > those settings. There is one for the FD and one for the SD. > > > As i mentioned, i have added the heartbeat on FD and SD. It seemed to > help on previous backup (it's a monthly backup) but now it failed > again. > >
For what it's worth, I recently split my DIR and SD boxes with a firewall (and a very slow link, as it turns out...). I was having all kinds of timeout issues, usually with the connection from DIR->SD while data was being sent from Client->SD (for many hours). Heartbeats did not help, but changing the TCP Keepalive timeouts (as mentioned in the FAQ; http://wiki.bacula.org/doku.php?id=faq ) worked great. I only set it on DIR and SD boxes, no need to set it on Clients. Changing it on the SD keeps my Client->SD connections alive, while DIR keeps DIR->Client connection alive; both ends keep DIR->SD alive. Some of my jobs trickle in for 48 hours, which is certainly not ideal, but we needed offsite disk-based backups of large files... Servers are Debian 5 (Lenny) running 5.0.2, firewall was Juniper Netscreen. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ The Next 800 Companies to Lead America's Growth: New Video Whitepaper David G. Thomson, author of the best-selling book "Blueprint to a Billion" shares his insights and actions to help propel your business during the next growth cycle. Listen Now! http://p.sf.net/sfu/SAP-dev2dev _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
