B. Cook wrote:
> I am trying to figure out why this is telling me what it's telling me.
>
> The server is located at a different building and connected to us via
> partial T1..
>
> # Last status is state "idle" (no ping) as of 4/4 09:54.
> # Last error is "ping too slow: 174.8msec (threshold is 100msec)".
> # Pings to proxy.mor.pcsd have failed 2 consecutive times.
> # Prior to that, pings to proxy.mor.pcsd have succeeded 305
> consecutive times.
> # Because proxy.mor.pcsd has been on the network at least 7
> consecutive times, it will not be backed up from 7:00 to 19:30 on Mon,
> Tue, Wed, Thu, Fri.
>
> From my backuppc server this is what 'ping' tells me..
>
> PING proxy.mor.pcsd (10.20.10.64): 56 data bytes
> 64 bytes from 10.20.10.64: icmp_seq=0 ttl=62 time=6.840 ms
> 64 bytes from 10.20.10.64: icmp_seq=1 ttl=62 time=17.988 ms
> 64 bytes from 10.20.10.64: icmp_seq=2 ttl=62 time=5.977 ms
> 64 bytes from 10.20.10.64: icmp_seq=3 ttl=62 time=6.979 ms
> 64 bytes from 10.20.10.64: icmp_seq=4 ttl=62 time=8.977 ms
>
> --- proxy.mor.pcsd ping statistics ---
> 5 packets transmitted, 5 packets received, 0% packet loss
> round-trip min/avg/max/stddev = 5.977/9.352/17.988/4.428 ms
>
>
> Why does backuppc think the ping is 'too slow' ?
There was probably more traffic on the link when backuppc tried it. Or
the link into your backuppc server itself was saturated with other
running backups.
> and how can I fix that?
I'd try bumping $Conf{PingMaxMsec} to about 200.
--
Les Mikesell
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