Nightly config backup fails (suspect TFTP server)

Question

My nightly config backup fails often. I traced it down to the TFTP server. When my job fails, I kill the TFTP-Server.exe in Task Manager and rerun and all is well. I wrote a script that kills the TFTP-Server.exe process that runs at midnight. This helped but did not completely fix the problem.

The TFTP server is Version 8.2.16 from Sept 2005. Cirrus is version 3.5.1 - May 2007.

The script that kills TFTP is: (it is run twice in case there are multiple instances running)

tskill TFTP-Server /A > e:	ftp-kill.log

I opened Case 22568 last Wednesday but never heard back.

Is there a newer TFTP server that can be installed? Is there another fix I need to be looking for?

vinman1000 · Answer

Thanks sedmo. I was wary of doing that but will give it a shot.

sedmo · Answer

I have also had a problem with the TFTP-Server freezing up and going into a not responding state.  This would happen when doing a nightly scheduled download or when performing a manual download on groups of devices.  The problem seemed to occurr when doing larger groups of devices.  I opened a support case and support indicated that they were aware of this problem but the only fix was to download smaller groups at a time.  I ended up downloading and installing the free tftp server available on the solarwinds web site which installs as a service.  After installation I set the tftp service to start automatically.  So far, this has cleared up my problem.