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esp1958
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10 years ago
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SSR 2013 Agent is holding a connection open on a CIFS share

From our SSR management server I'm creating jobs that schedule backups for quite a few servers (about 50) in the same domain.  I'm pointing their backups to a CIFS share on another storage unit, but that storage unit accepts only 32 connections at a time.

Once 32 machine connect to that share to perform their SSR backup, none of them releases their connection -- even after their backups are completed.

Is there a way to make them release their connection?

All the servers being backed up are either 2008 R2 or Server 2012 (mostly R2).

  • The SSR MS itself also holds a connection open to each backup destination.

    So may I ask you to mark your post as solved?

    Regards Markus

  • Thanks, Markus -- I'll mark as solved.

    To summarize, the SSR Agent will keep a connection open to the management server, as well as an open connection to the UNC it is directed to back up to.  This is typically not an issue unless, like me, you have an appliance that will accept a limited number of connections (in our case the limit is 32).