Solved: Real time backup server not syncing

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Hi, I’ve installed seafile on my primary server pointing to the backup server but the backup server is not syncing. The primary server is using ext4 as a file system but the backup server is using wasabi s3 storage. It has been “syncing” for a few days, about 10 days now, and I have 180gb on the primary server, but I don’t think it should take that long to sync. I have copied across the database from the primary server (excluding the necessary tables) and tried using the backup server but there is only 1 file on the library.

I did check seafile.log and this is the error I can see everywhere; there is many lines with this error and I did check on the forum but I can’t find an answer to what could be wrong with that:

2021-06-29 10:08:35 ../common/obj-cache.c(111): Failed to set OBJEXISTENCE2-02227d81-b035-403e-bc47-5e5990dc749d-41     428ca430c776435677c86d152d79b36e901ed0 to memcached: SERVER HAS FAILED AND IS DISABLED UNTIL TIMED RETRY.

I am running both the primary server and the backup server with docker. Is there anything else I should be looking for? The only file that is on the backup server is actually correct from 11 days ago, but there is nothing else in there.

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Still having this issue. I’m using seafile pro, in case anyone could help me out with this.

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I’ve found the issue. I started digging on why would that fail and checked that the S3 settings on my seafile.conf had a problem with memcache:

memcached_options = --SERVER=127.0.0.1 --POOL-MIN=10 --POOL-MAX=100

As I’m running the whole seafile with docker, obviously memcached is on a different container, with a different IP on the same network. So all I had to do is fix that ip and put the right ip from the docker container in the settings. After that, I restarted the whole stack and everything started to sync; I noticed it started syncing when the error message stopped appearing on the logs and instead I had some syncing messages. Today, one day after, all my files are on the library on the backup server.

Hope this helps someone.