Hi,

On 6/6/2007 10:57 PM, Kyle Marsh wrote:
> Howdy,
> 
> I'm working on a bacula setup for my college and I have found that
> when a client goes down, whether it's firewalled, turned off, or
> otherwise disconnected from the network, bacula seems to hang for
> about 40 minutes

Unusual timeout, in my experience... I'd expect nearly instantaneous job 
failure or the IT-related two hours...

> before deciding that the client isn't there and
> stopping.  This could become problematic if we have several machines
> down each night and could cause substantial problems if some backups
> don't start until people are back working.  Is there a directive that
> allows me to specify something sane as the timeout period, and where
> does it need to go?


I prefer leaving the timeouts to Bacula, and instead use "Run Before 
Job" scripts to ping the clients. Concurrent jobs are a reasonable 
solution against long-running or stalled jobs.

Arno

> Thanks,
> 
> Kyle Marsh
> 
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