Hi Jussi, You can increase the verbosity with the -v<value> parameter, maybe this gives you some more insight into what's going on. Are there any patterns? Is it always the same backup script where these failures occur?
Patrick. Jussi Hirvi <[email protected]> wrote: >I have something like a terabyte of stuff to backup. I do it each day >with more than ten rdiff-backup scripts (one for each directory). > >Lately I have been getting these errors: > >> Received disconnect from nn.nn.nn.nn: 2: Timeout, your session not >responding. >> Fatal Error: Lost connection to the remote system > >(nn.nn.nn.nn stands for source ip). > >the script is of this type: > >rdiff-backup --exclude-special-files --force --remote-schema "ssh -i >/root/.ssh/myserver.dsa %s rdiff-backup --server" >[email protected]::/path/to/dir /path/to/dir 1>> logfile 2>> logfile > >I have tried different things, like >- simply rerun the script >- throw away rdiff-backup-data directory, then try again >- like before, then use rsync, then rdiff-backup again >- add ServerAliveInterval 180 to /etc/ssh/ssh_config on target > and ClientAliveInterval 180 to sshd_config on source machine >- add ConnectTimeout 300 to ssh_config on target machine > >Adjusting ssh_config seems to have no effect. These errors seem to >center on some dirs and not on others. But the errors don't occur every > >time, which makes it hard to find the reason. > >Finally, here is some version information (same versions on source and >target): >- CentOS 5.6 (source 64-bit, target 32-bit) >- rdiff-backup 1.2.8 > >I could check versions of dependencies, if necessary. There may be >version differences because one system is 32- and the other 64-bit. > >One theory is that the router for my target machine (my modem is in >bridge mode, so the router is owned by cable operator) plays nasty. >They >changed all ip's recently, and I think these errors started to appear >around the same time. Probably the whole machine has been changed, the >routing capabilities for my LAN changed (no more Bonjour printer >sharing, etc.). > >Any thoughts about the reason and remedy of the rdiff-backup errors? > >Thanks, >Jussi > >_______________________________________________ >rdiff-backup-users mailing list at [email protected] >https://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/rdiff-backup-users >Wiki URL: >http://rdiff-backup.solutionsfirst.com.au/index.php/RdiffBackupWiki -- Sent from my phone. _______________________________________________ rdiff-backup-users mailing list at [email protected] https://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/rdiff-backup-users Wiki URL: http://rdiff-backup.solutionsfirst.com.au/index.php/RdiffBackupWiki
