> Sorry to trouble you with what's probably a simple problem, but I'm now > looking at the very real possibility of wiping all our backups clean and > starting from scratch if I can't fix it... :( > Its highly doubtful that this method will help. > > I'm having problems with some Full backups, which run for between 1 and > 2 hours, appearing to "time out" after the data transfer from the FD to > the SD. The error message (shown below) shows that the data transfer > completes, often in about 1hr30min, and then Bacula does nothing until > the job has been running for 2 hours at which point it gives an FD > error. > > Other Full backups (which don't take as long) run correctly, and for > most of the time Inc and Diff backups also run correctly. However, a > small % of backups will fail at random, also with FD errors but at > random times-elapsed during the job... this I have been ascribing to > network fluctuations! The difference is that re-running these random > failures will succeed, whilst this particular Full failure doesn't! ;) > > I've already tried setting a heartbeat interval of 20 minutes in the > FD/SD and DIR conf files (thinking that the FD -> Dir connection was > timing out) but this doesn't change anything. > > In the time between the data transfer finishing and the timeout, > Postgres has an open connection with a "COPY batch FROM STDIN" > transaction in progress, which at the timeout produces errors in the > Postgres log that I have also shown below. > > I'm happy to post portions of the conf files if needed, but they're huge > and might well lead to tl;dr! > > Any suggestions as to how I can troubleshoot this further would be most > appreciated! >
I would make the heartbeat interval much shorter. Also I am interested on why the backup rate is this slow. Slow network? John ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Let Crystal Reports handle the reporting - Free Crystal Reports 2008 30-Day trial. Simplify your report design, integration and deployment - and focus on what you do best, core application coding. Discover what's new with Crystal Reports now. http://p.sf.net/sfu/bobj-july _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
