Rob Hudson wrote:
> I'm helping a friend set up a sort of backup solution. He's got a
> co-located Linux web server, and a Linux file server in his office
> behind a firewall. I set up an rsync script to synchronize (pull) all
> the web files down at night. The problem is that it's dying about 25%
> of the way through. From the log error output it appears that since
> rsync can sometimes take a bit of time, something happens to the
> network connection during the sync and drops the connection. This is
> the closest explanation I could find:
> http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/msg14422.html
Maybe the NAT box is dropping the connection due to inactivity.
Try enabling ssh keepalives. On the client:
$ echo ServerAliveInterval 300 >> ~/.ssh/config
or...
$ man ssh_config # (-:
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Bob Miller K<bob>
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