Hi there, we recently added an archive host to our BackupPC installation and were very surprised to find out that the archive jobs were being terminated after exactly 1200 minutes.
After some googleing i found http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/msg17946.html which explains a lot. The comment in config.pl regarding $Conf{ClientTimeout} seems to be wrong and thus confused me: # Timeout in seconds when listening for the transport program's # (smbclient, tar etc) stdout. If no output is received during this # time, then it is assumed that something has wedged during a backup, # and the backup is terminated. $Conf{ClientTimeout} = 72000; The comment gives the wrong impression that the timeout is only triggered when no output has been received for the specified time. In reality however, $Conf{ClientTimeout} limits the maximum execution time of an individual transport regardless of output has been received or not. In our case we were archiving 33 hosts to disk which would apparently take more than 20 hours. I suggest fixing the wrong comment and adding some words that make it clear that $Conf{ClientTimeout} could be a problem for long running BackupPC_archive jobs and therefore should be overwritten in the archive hosts per-PC config.pl file. Greetings, Marcel. -- Softjury GmbH Südfeldstr. 10 32120 Hiddenhausen Tel: +49.5221.85402-20 Fax: +49.5221.85402-29 Web: http://www.softjury.de Mail: [email protected] Registergericht: AG Bad Oeynhausen HRB 10056 Geschäftsführer: Per Hlawatschek Sitz der Gesellschaft: Hiddenhausen Steuernummer: 324/5723/1814 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Download Intel® Parallel Studio Eval Try the new software tools for yourself. Speed compiling, find bugs proactively, and fine-tune applications for parallel performance. See why Intel Parallel Studio got high marks during beta. http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-sw-dev _______________________________________________ BackupPC-users mailing list [email protected] List: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users Wiki: http://backuppc.wiki.sourceforge.net Project: http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/
