[Box Backup] Boxwin Client activity

[Per Thomsen]

On 4/19/05 8:03 PM, Jammer wrote:

>Hi
>
>One of my backup clients (boxwin 0.09f)  seems to be generating 
>excessive activity (but I'm not sure if this is expected behaviour or not).
>Two other Windows clients don't appear to be generating anywhere 
>near this level of activity (once every few hours only)
>
>Here is an excerpt from my server log (/var/log/box)
>=========================================================
>Apr 20 14:40:10 bbox bbstored[3937]: Incoming connection from 192.168.7.2 port 3319 (handling in child 9669)
>Apr 20 14:40:11 bbox bbstored[9669]: Certificate CN: BACKUP-cafe01
>Apr 20 14:40:11 bbox bbstored[9669]: Login: Client ID 00CAFE01, Read/Write
>Apr 20 14:40:13 bbox bbstored[9669]: Session finished
>Apr 20 14:41:53 bbox bbstored[3937]: Incoming connection from 192.168.7.2 port 3332 (handling in child 5729)
>Apr 20 14:41:53 bbox bbstored[5729]: Certificate CN: BACKUP-cafe01
>Apr 20 14:41:53 bbox bbstored[5729]: Login: Client ID 00CAFE01, Read/Write
>=========================================================
>
>These entries are repeated approx every 100 seconds for the last 2 days.
>  
>
The 100 seconds is simply a function of how many files you have that 
need to be scanned. bbackupd simply logs in, scans the files, and then 
fails, and re-tries. Over and over again.

>I'm pretty sure the values in the client config are unchanged from their defaults at:
>UpdateStoreInterval = 3600
>MinimumFileAge = 21600
>MaxUploadWait = 86400
>
>Appended below is an excerpt from when I turned on extended 
>logging, again repeated approx every 100 seconds.
>
>Any clues as to what to check would be appreciated.
>Is this possibly a symptom of the diffing large files timeout issue that 
>was raised earlier ?
>  
>
[snip]
I think so. I have been experiencing this for a while with the BoxWin. 
Gary has found a problem that could be the resolution to this problem. 
We don't know yet, though. I'm going to be installing the 0.09g version 
at the one client that's having this exact problem.

This one client has a big file (~140M) that changes a lot (it's their 
accounting file). bbackupd appears to be timing out while diffing it 
(but not discovering the timeout), and losing the connection to the server.

Thanks,
Per

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