On Sun, 2008-12-07 at 21:40 -0500, Nikolas Coukouma wrote:

> On Sun, 2008-12-07 at 13:25 -0500, Dustin J. Mitchell wrote:
> > On Sun, Dec 7, 2008 at 12:22 PM, Matt Burkhardt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > > Now that I've got my holding disk set up, I've been running into issues 
> > > with
> > > timeouts from S3.
> >
> > ... These errors
> > are only reported to you after 14 retrires, which means Amazon has
> > been given ample opportunity to resolve any network issues.
> > ...
> 
> Actually, the 2.6.0p2 release (and earlier) uses significantly different
> values.
> The maximum number of retries is only 5 and the resulting time is fairly
> short (the backoff increases exponentially). I believe that 2.6.0p2 only
> waits a a couple seconds
> 
> If the bucket you're trying to backup to isn't created yet, that's
> probably the problem. If the problem persists, I'd recommend either
> trying the beta or compiling a copy from source, tweaking the values in
> device-src/s3.c .
> 
> Specifically, you'd want to change the values
> #define EXPONENTIAL_BACKOFF_START_USEC 10000
> #define EXPONENTIAL_BACKOFF_MAX_RETRIES 5
> to
> #define EXPONENTIAL_BACKOFF_START_USEC G_USEC_PER_SEC/100
> #define EXPONENTIAL_BACKOFF_MAX_RETRIES 14
> 
> Regards,

I'm sure you probably already know, but I'm running the Ubuntu Hardy
2.6.1b1 package.  I just downloaded the source for 2.6.1b1 and those
definitions are already set in the s3.c file - would it be worth it to
try and uninstall the package and reinstall from source?

Thanks!

Matt Burkhardt, MSTM
President
Impari Systems, Inc.
502 Fairview Avenue
Frederick, MD  21701
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
www.imparisystems.com
(301) 682-7901


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