On Sun, 2008-12-07 at 21:40 -0500, Nikolas Coukouma wrote: > On Sun, 2008-12-07 at 13:25 -0500, Dustin J. Mitchell wrote: > > On Sun, Dec 7, 2008 at 12:22 PM, Matt Burkhardt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Now that I've got my holding disk set up, I've been running into issues > > > with > > > timeouts from S3. > > > > ... These errors > > are only reported to you after 14 retrires, which means Amazon has > > been given ample opportunity to resolve any network issues. > > ... > > Actually, the 2.6.0p2 release (and earlier) uses significantly different > values. > The maximum number of retries is only 5 and the resulting time is fairly > short (the backoff increases exponentially). I believe that 2.6.0p2 only > waits a a couple seconds > > If the bucket you're trying to backup to isn't created yet, that's > probably the problem. If the problem persists, I'd recommend either > trying the beta or compiling a copy from source, tweaking the values in > device-src/s3.c . > > Specifically, you'd want to change the values > #define EXPONENTIAL_BACKOFF_START_USEC 10000 > #define EXPONENTIAL_BACKOFF_MAX_RETRIES 5 > to > #define EXPONENTIAL_BACKOFF_START_USEC G_USEC_PER_SEC/100 > #define EXPONENTIAL_BACKOFF_MAX_RETRIES 14 > > Regards,
I'm sure you probably already know, but I'm running the Ubuntu Hardy 2.6.1b1 package. I just downloaded the source for 2.6.1b1 and those definitions are already set in the s3.c file - would it be worth it to try and uninstall the package and reinstall from source? Thanks! Matt Burkhardt, MSTM President Impari Systems, Inc. 502 Fairview Avenue Frederick, MD 21701 [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.imparisystems.com (301) 682-7901
