I'm upgrading my older backup server to a new FreeBSD 10 box. (New machine has lots of resources and I backup to disk.)
After installing the director and storage daemons on the new server, I pointed to the existing file daemons (which I also reconfigured) on the clients spread around the network. I could read status and communicate to/from the daemons. But when I try to do a backup nothing seemed to work. Instead, I'd get an error such as 07-Mar 07:26 Colo8 JobId 94: Fatal error: backup.c:1190 Network send error to SD. ERR=Broken pipe At that point, the CPU usage of the SD would go to zero and disk throughput would go to zero -- and all progress would stop. (That is, if 5 machines were trying to backup and one threw a fatal error, then suddenly progress would stop on all 5 machines.) Webmin's display would show that one client had a 'fatal error' and reported the others' status as 'is running'. The various log files simply keep claiming Network errors. If Ii cancel the job with the fatal error, then progress starts again for a short while until another job gets a fatal error and the system freezes again. These fatal errors can occur after just seconds or after an hour or two. But they occur so often that essentially no backup jobs can hope to complete. The network is known and solid, not overloaded nor undergoing change. Other network services run without problems. I have been fighting with this for several days and have succeeded in getting a total of 1 backup jobs to run to completion -- on a newly built but different FreeBSD 10 server. (The problem occurs even on the backup server.) I've upgraded the FDs to the latest revision. This fails with FDs on FreeBSD, Linux and Windows. I can use telnet to communicate from each machine to each required port. For now, the machines are running with firewalls down. The odds are 99% that I've done something stupid. Could someone please point me to the proper FAQ or suggest a debugging strategy? ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Subversion Kills Productivity. Get off Subversion & Make the Move to Perforce. With Perforce, you get hassle-free workflows. Merge that actually works. Faster operations. Version large binaries. Built-in WAN optimization and the freedom to use Git, Perforce or both. Make the move to Perforce. http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=122218951&iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users