> amar chakma 
> 
> I also read a post on this forum sometime back where a firewall was
> configured and it kills the idle backup session after certain period.
> 
> Regards,
> Amar

That was me - We were backing up a Windows host behind a Cisco firewall 
and had to configure the client to send keepalives so the connection 
didn't disconnect. I posted what we did on that thread.

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