> Given your kernel log message I would expect seeing the reconnecting happen. I scheduled a tshark -c over night and was able to get it to run within minutes of the reconnect attempts.It seems pretty consistent, about 2 hours after the start of the cron the Error -11's start to happen. Last night it also happened about 30 minutes into the job: May 11 23:47:51 localworkstation kernel: CIFS VFS: Server drobo-rh has not responded in 120 seconds. Reconnecting... May 11 23:49:59 localworkstation kernel: CIFS VFS: Server drobo-rh has not responded in 120 seconds. Reconnecting... May 11 23:52:57 localworkstation kernel: CIFS VFS: Server drobo-rh has not responded in 120 seconds. Reconnecting... May 12 01:19:44 localworkstation cupsd: REQUEST localhost - - "POST / HTTP/1.1" 200 181 Renew-Subscription successful-ok May 12 01:21:20 localworkstation kernel: CIFS VFS: sends on sock ffff9f2817bede00 stuck for 15 seconds May 12 01:21:20 localworkstation kernel: CIFS VFS: Error -11 sending data on socket to server Here's the tshark -r tshark.pcap -Y 'smb||smb2' results from 2 files: 593 0.273687063 drobo → localserver SMB 117 [TCP ACKed unseen segment] Write AndX Response, 65536 bytes 666 0.282264835 drobo → localserver SMB 117 Write AndX Response, 65536 bytes 8 0.136979937 drobo → localserver SMB 117 [TCP ACKed unseen segment] [TCP Previous segment not captured] Write AndX Response, 65536 bytes 36 0.142752037 drobo → localserver SMB 117 Write AndX Response, 65536 bytes 63 0.149017707 drobo → localserver SMB 117 Write AndX Response, 65536 bytes > I would wrap your backup script like so to get the right capture: > > capfile="$(date -Ihours)" > tcpdump -w "$capfile" port 445 & > cappid=$! > sleep 2 > .....<your script>.... > sleep 2 > kill -6 $cappid OK just did that and started running the backup manually so far I've seen variations/multiples of these (cut for easier reading): 38735 18.521926 localserver → drobo SMB 10202 Write AndX Request, FID: 0x1fca, 65536 bytes at offset 87949312[TCP segment of a reassembled PDU] 38760 18.527189 localserver → drobo SMB 7306 Write AndX Request, FID: 0x1fca, 65536 bytes at offset 88014848[TCP segment of a reassembled PDU] 38771 18.529817 drobo → localserver SMB 117 Write AndX Response, FID: 0x1fca, 65536 bytes 44079 19.615349 drobo → localserver SMB 117 [TCP ACKed unseen segment] Write AndX Response, 65536 bytes 44102 19.626642 drobo → localserver SMB 117 [TCP ACKed unseen segment] Write AndX Response, 65536 bytes -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-cifs" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html