$20 you have the other bacula comm channel failing due to timeout of the
state on a forwarding device. Dropping spool sizes is only increasing the
frequency of communication across that path. You will likely see this
problem solved completely by setting a short duration keepalive in your
bacula configs.
-Blake
On Fri, Jun 10, 2011 at 20:48, Mike Seda <mas...@stanford.edu> wrote:
> I just encountered a similar error in RHEL 6 using 5.0.3 (on the server
> and client) with Data Spooling enabled:
> 10-Jun 02:06 srv084 JobId 43: Error: bsock.c:393 Write error sending
> 65536 bytes to Storage daemon:srv010.nowhere.us:9103: ERR=Broken pipe
> 10-Jun 02:06 srv084 JobId 43: Fatal error: backup.c:1024 Network send
> error to SD. ERR=Broken pipe
>
> The way that I made it go away was to decrease "Maximum Spool Size" from
> 200G to 2G. I also received the same error at 100G and 50G. I ended up
> just disabling data spooling completely on this box since small spool
> sizes almost defeat the point of spooling at all.
>
> I've also been seeing some sporadic tape drive errors recently, too. So
> that may be part of the problem. I will be running the vendor-suggested
> diags on the library (Dell TL4000 with 2 x LTO-4 FC drives) in the next
> couple of days.
>
> Plus, this is a temporary SD instance that I will eventually migrate to
> new hardware and add large/fast SAN disk to for spooling. This should
> explain the reason for the small spool size settings... This box only
> has a 2 x 300 GB drive SAS 10K RAID 1.
>
> It'd be nice to see if anyone else has received this error on a similar
> HW/SW configuration.
>
> Mike
>
>
> On 06/07/2011 09:48 AM, Yann Cézard wrote:
> > Le 07/06/2011 18:10, Josh Fisher a écrit :
> >> Another problem I see with Windows 7 clients is too aggressive power
> >> management turning off the Ethernet interface even though it is in use
> >> by bacula-fd. Apparently there is some Windows system call that a
> >> service (daemon) must make to tell Windows not to do power management
> >> while it is busy. I don't know what versions of Windows do that, other
> >> than 7 and Vista, but it is a potential problem.
> > There is no power management on our servers :-D
> >
> > I just ran some tests this afternoon, I create a new bacula server
> > with lenny / bacula 2.4.4, and downgrade the client to 2.4.4, to
> > be sure that all was fine with the same fileset, etc.
> > The test was OK, no problem, the job ran fine.
> > Than I tested again with our production server (5.0.3) and
> > the 2.4.4 client => network error, failed job
> > I upgraded the test bacula server to squeeze / bacula 5.0.2,
> > and still the 2.4.4 fd on the client => No problem !
> >
> > So it seems that the problem is clearly in "network hardware" on the
> > server side.
> >
> > We will do some more tests on the network side (change
> > switch port, change wire, see if no firmware update is available...),
> > but now I really doubt that the problem is in bacula, nor it can be
> > resolved in it.
> >
> > The strange thing is that the problems are only observed with win32
> > clients. Perhaps the Windows (2003) TCP/IP stack is less fault tolerant
> than
> > the linux one in some very special case ?
> >
> > Regards,
> >
>
>
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