On Wed, Dec 16, 2009 at 01:46:50PM -0800, Robin Lee Powell wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 16, 2009 at 03:13:23PM -0600, Les Mikesell wrote:
> > Robin Lee Powell wrote:
> > > 
> > > They're just not *doing* anything.  Nothing has errored out;
> > > BackupPC thinks everything is fine.
> > > 
> > > Some of the places this is happening are very small backups
> > > that usually take a matter of minutes.
> > > 
> > > Suddenly this isn't looking like a networking problem anymore;
> > > the networking appears to be just fine.  This is looking like
> > > a BackupPC problem.  My version, by the way, is 3.1.0.  It's
> > > like at some point BackupPC forgot that it was supposed to be
> > > trying to back anything up.
> > 
> > This sounds vaguely familiar, perhaps like:
> > http://www.mail-archive.com/backuppc-devel AT lists.sourceforge DOT 
> > net/msg00321.html
> > but I don't know if that had a resolution.  It doesn't seem
> > common, though.
> 
> That part turns out to be Extremely Lame: it was adding "-vv" to
> ssh.  Drop the -vs and put the -q back in, and that part gets
> better.  Which means I'm sort of back to the drawing board.  I'll
> try with ServerAliveInterval=60 and -q and let y'all know.

Y'all were so right: ServerAliveInterval=60 (*without* adding -v
flags to ssh) cleared the problem right up.

Thanks so much for the help.

-Robin

-- 
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And I'm  thinking:  "Does it even occur to you to try for something
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