Re: [Bacula-users] Network send error to SD. ERR=Connection timed out

[<rau...@go...>]

Just out of couriousity: Could it also be related to "Max Run ..." and/or
"Max Wait ..." config options?

(Forgot to mention that in my original post).

On Sun, 05 Dec 2010, rau...@go... wrote:

> Hi Dan,
> 
> On Thu, 02 Dec 2010, Dan Langille wrote:
> 
> > [...]
> > There is a frequently encountered problem where a firewall etc drops
> > a connection even though it is still active.  This is what heart
> > beat is designed to help with.  That a firewall allows the
> > connection to start is not relevant to that situation.
> 
> No, I double checked. There's no packet filter active and I have the heart
> beat option in all relevant configs (dir,sd,fd).
> Furthermore, the FAQ entry you're referring to deals with ERR=Connection
> reset by peer, not ERR=Connection timed out.
> 
> > [...]
> > >that pointed out that Bacula once had problems with certain device
> > >files. Here's the link:
> > >
> > >http://www.mail-archive.com/bac...@li.../msg07821.html
> > >
> > >Unfortunately, in my output the currently processed file is not mentioned.
> > >Any way I can fix this in order to gain more insight?
> > 
> > The output is from status client.  You see no file name mentioned there?
> 
> Unfortunately not. "status client" output is for spooling (copying from
> client on which bacula-fd runs to a spool directory), not for despooling
> (writing from the spool directory to tape via bacula-sd). I also checked the
> output in the mail referenced by the above link and the output quite clearly
> comes from bacula-sd (maybe it was invoked with some debug option(s) )?
> 
> Apart from that I'm wondering what's really going on because bacula-sd and
> bacula-dir are both running on the same machine which also hosts the spool
> directory) to which the autoloader is connected so I admittedly don't
> really understand why networking functionality is needed when
> bacula-sd writes data from the spool directory to tape?
> 
> Thanks & kind regards,
> 
>     Holger