[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Maybe I shouldn't chime in, because I've only been half following this > thread, but I can't help wondering if you've looked into all the > firewall/timeout possibilities? Sometimes those settings get hosed during > an upgrade too. > > Not a bad thing to look into. I remember someone saying earlier that they found a switch that would drop a TCP connection after only a few minutes of inactivity. On a large file, is it possible rsync is busy calculating a checksum for a long time, especially on a busy system, causing that period of inactivity to trigger some denial-of-service rules for open ports?
One thing you could do is hook up a packet sniffer (tcpdump) and see what is happening on the wire during that time. If it's nothing, that's your first clue. Also, you might crank up the timeout settings for just the failing hosts and see if it allows your backups to run longer before failing. Your failures are right about 20 minutes into them, which is a suspiciously round number. JH ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys - and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV _______________________________________________ BackupPC-users mailing list BackupPC-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/
