spawn Posted August 23, 2006 Report Share Posted August 23, 2006 Sometimes, one of our Linux servers stops getting backed up, for no reason that is obvious to me. When I run "service rcl status" it says: Server "<Backup Client Name>": Version 7.5.112 reserved by <Backup Server> for <Backup Set> back up according to normal schedule currently on readonly is off exclude is off 1 connections, 1 authenticated If I stop and start the client, things start working again, and status says: Server "<Backup Client Name>": Version 7.5.112 back up according to normal schedule currently on readonly is off exclude is off 0 connections, 0 authenticated Some questions: 1) Why does it get into this stuck state? 2) How can I get notification that it stopped working? Retrospect email notifications suck... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spawn Posted August 23, 2006 Author Report Share Posted August 23, 2006 Speculation: this happens when the backup script terminates due to running longer than the allowed schedule. Note that the client in question was NOT the one active! The one active at the time was another Linux server, and that one continued to be backed up according to the schedule. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nekr0phage Posted August 24, 2006 Report Share Posted August 24, 2006 Hi Spawn, I have often seen a client hang in a "in use" status when a connection fails to terminate correctly. If this wasn't the client in use when the script terminated, then I'm not exactly sure why it happened in this scenario. Unfortunately, I can't think of a way to come up with any notification for this, as the connection is most likely terminated correctly on the server side and the client has not failed, it simply doesn't realize it is no longer actually in use. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spawn Posted August 24, 2006 Author Report Share Posted August 24, 2006 What I'd really like is for the Retrospect server to send an email notification (not several little ones, which it seems fond of doing) listing the clients that haven't been backed up in x number of days. That seems like a reasonable feature to expect it to have. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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