Re: BudTool NDMP backups dying prematurely.

Josh Tiefenbach wrote:

... A 2 hour pause.

This is a problem, as 2 hours later, the backup dies with the following message in the logs:

    Command exceeded maximum allowable run time 14400.

ie, 4 hours.

I'm not sure if this is what you're looking for, but we had a filesystem that was taking longer than 21 hours to back up, so budtool killed the dump. Then it would start over again. And again, and again ...

We went into $BTHOME/bud/goserver.end.filter and made a change:

# diff goserver.end.filter.05-24-99 goserver.end.filter 199c199 < param("BT_REQ_CMDTIMEOUT","78800"); ---

  param("BT_REQ_CMDTIMEOUT","157600");

#

Then the job lived long enough to finish. Perhaps this will help you, but I'm not sure, since your 4 hour life-to-live is much smaller than the default 21 hours, so maybe it's coming from somewhere else ... YMMV.

-ste