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

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