Carl Wilhelm Soderstrom wrote: > On 08/18 03:47 , David Simpson wrote: > >> Carl Wilhelm Soderstrom wrote: >> >>> - turn up your timeout to some ridiculously large figure. just put an extra >>> zero or two at the end of the default value. Yeah, there's a possibility >>> that this will cause a hung backup to tie things up for longer than it >>> should; but you can always turn the value down once you have your initial >>> transfer done. >>> >>> >> As I mentioned to Les, this is not the initial transfer, but a new large >> file which was created and needed to be backed up. >> > > maybe I'm misunderstanding your situation then. If the file transfer is > taking more than 6 hours; why not keep increasing the timeout value until > the file transfer no longer times out? AFAIK it doesn't matter whether we're > talking about one file or lots of files; if timeout is killing your backup > before it's done, try increasing the backup. > I have increased the time out, and this file has now transfered over the weekend. However I don't want a really large timeout permanently, as I don't really want the backup running during working hours, as it tends to slow down the ADSL link, and the users complain. Having it time out and restart would solve this. Also, have a huge timeout could cause the backup to lock up for a long time, and prevent other backups from running until it eventually times out. > the inefficiencies of not being able to resume are another matter; but this > at least might get you backed up. :) > > It is very inefficient not being unable to resume a file transfer. Rsync copes very with this, and when I using a straight Rsync backup, if a large file needed to be backed up, Rsync may time out the first night, but would eventually catch up, without having to change anything. With the current Backuppc arrangement, it get stuck on one large file, and can *never* catch up without changing the timeout. It also wastes a lot of network bandwidth until I notice and do something about it.
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