Adding to mariannes outstanding post ...
Why do you have timeouts on clients - they do nothing why are they being added.
Are you adding timeouts just because you can ? This is not the way to administrate a backup environment.
Untill you are very very experienced, I do not recommend changing any settings like timeouts unless you have a problem.
However, perhaps you did have some issue and you added the timeouts to the master or media, and , the clients without realising they do not go there.
When you add setting chanages, you must add only ONE at a time, and see what the effect is, and, if it does not do what you want remove it.
For example, perhaps you have some issue where you have to add a client connect timeout to the media server to fix it.
If you :
1. Add the client connect timeout to the media server, and test, you will see that it resolved the issue - job done.
2. If you add the timeout to the client and test you will see it doesn't fix the issue, so, you remove it and try the timeout on the media server - which would be the correct solution.
3. If you add he timeout to the media server and the client at the same time and then test, you will see tha th issue is solved BUT, only because you have added the setting to the media server. The setting on the client is doing nothing and sholdn't be there, but as you made two changes at once, this is hidden.
Do you see why you should only make one change at once, and, why only if you have an issue ???
You can also get in the situation where you make 2 (or more) changes where each of the changes would break the system but with the same symptoms. Even when troubleshooting, we only like to make 1 change at a time, so if you have mutiple changes that have been made that break the system with the same symptoms they are very hard to find
I saw a case some time ago - system was in a right mess - wouldn't run at all, but 'no changes had been made'.
It took about a week to get the system running . In fact so many changes had been made that caused the same or similar issues, that it was almost impossibe to find them.
It turned out that many of these changes had been made for no real reason, just people 'playing' - eventually it broke the system, and then more changes were made that made the situation even more worse.
Martin