Re: [Bacula-users] 1 second Network glitch kills Windows backups

2016-07-02 Thread Kern Sibbald
Theoretically, the most recent versions Bacula (the Bacula Enterprise versions) disables any Windows suspend during a backup, but I have never actually tried it, and I am not sure if it disables the power saving modes though. If you figure out how to shut off such Bacula unfriendly stuff on a M

Re: [Bacula-users] 1 second Network glitch kills Windows backups

2016-07-02 Thread Josh Fisher
On 7/1/2016 4:30 PM, Kern Sibbald wrote: > Hello, > > In general, the TCP/IP protocol that Bacula uses is extremely tolerant, > and should retry sending packets quite a number of times before finally > giving up. It is designed to tolerate a significant number of dropped > packets. However, then

Re: [Bacula-users] 1 second Network glitch kills Windows backups

2016-07-02 Thread Kern Sibbald
Hello Craig, I forgot to mention that I implemented a feature quite a long time ago that compensates for most poor quality (or defensive) switches that disconnect idle lines despite the standard Internet 2 hour delay.  The feature is a directive called:

Re: [Bacula-users] 1 second Network glitch kills Windows backups

2016-07-01 Thread Craig Shiroma
Thank you Wanderlei, Josh and Kern! Judging from Kern's and Josh's replies, the solution is to try and find a fix on Windows and the possibly the switches. I guess it's best just to live with the canceled jobs and re-run them. I'd rather have good backups than incomplete ones since as Kern indic

Re: [Bacula-users] 1 second Network glitch kills Windows backups

2016-07-01 Thread Kern Sibbald
Hello, In general, the TCP/IP protocol that Bacula uses is extremely tolerant, and should retry sending packets quite a number of times before finally giving up. It is designed to tolerate a significant number of dropped packets. However, then there are two things that enter to screw this up

Re: [Bacula-users] 1 second Network glitch kills Windows backups

2016-07-01 Thread Josh Fisher
On 7/1/2016 1:26 AM, Craig Shiroma wrote: > Hello All, > > Is there a way in Bacula to prevent something like a 1 or 2 second > network glitch from cancelling Window Server backups? RHEL backups > seem to survive these episodes with no problems. > Bacula expects DIR-to-FD and FD-to-SD TCP conne

[Bacula-users] 1 second Network glitch kills Windows backups

2016-06-30 Thread Craig Shiroma
Hello All, Is there a way in Bacula to prevent something like a 1 or 2 second network glitch from cancelling Window Server backups? RHEL backups seem to survive these episodes with no problems. Respectfully, Craig -- Att