On Mon, Dec 14, 2009 at 08:20:07PM -0600, Les Mikesell wrote: > Robin Lee Powell wrote: > > > > Asking rsync, and ssh, and a pair of firewalls and load > > balancers (it's complicated) to stay perfectly fine for almost a > > full day is really asking a whole hell of a lot. > > I don't think that should be true. There's no reason for a > program to quit just because it has been running for a day and no > particular limit to what ssh can transfer. And tcp can deal with > quite a lot of lossage and problems - unless your load balancers > are NATing to different sources or tossing RST's when they fail > over.
Oh, I agree; in an ideal world, it wouldn't be an issue. I'm afraid I don't live there. :) > > For large data sets like this, rsync simple isn't robust enough > > by itself. Losing 15 hours worth of (BackupPC's) work because > > the ssh connection goes down is *really* frustrating. > > I don't think it is rsync or ssh's problem, although you are > correct that rsync could be better about handling huge sets of > files. Both should be as reliable as the underlying hardware. I don't want to talk about our underlying hardware. ;'( -Robin -- They say: "The first AIs will be built by the military as weapons." And I'm thinking: "Does it even occur to you to try for something other than the default outcome?" See http://shrunklink.com/cdiz http://www.digitalkingdom.org/~rlpowell/ *** http://www.lojban.org/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Return on Information: Google Enterprise Search pays you back Get the facts. http://p.sf.net/sfu/google-dev2dev _______________________________________________ BackupPC-users mailing list BackupPC-users@lists.sourceforge.net List: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users Wiki: http://backuppc.wiki.sourceforge.net Project: http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/