I'm not sure keepalive is working the way I think it's supposed to. Here's my test. I've got a large file (approx 1 gig) on the rsync server, and I append a character on the end to make it slightly different. I fire up rsync on the client side and everything works fine until I hit the timeout value. I have this problems when I have a timeout of below 90 seconds. I've tried 30, and 60 second timeout values, and still get this problem. After I increase the timeout to 90 seconds or above, it works fine.
Now my understanding was that the keepalive feature was supposed to prevent this from ever happening. Am I doing something wrong? Is 60 seconds just way too short of a time to expect to put for a timeout value for very large files? Or do I miss-understand what the keepalive function is supposed to do? I've tried 2.6.4, and 2.6.5pre1 on both the client and server. -- To unsubscribe or change options: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/rsync Before posting, read: http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html