On Sun, 2008-12-07 at 13:25 -0500, Dustin J. Mitchell wrote:
> On Sun, Dec 7, 2008 at 12:22 PM, Matt Burkhardt <mlb AT imparisystems DOT 
> com> wrote:
> > Now that I've got my holding disk set up, I've been running into issues with
> > timeouts from S3.
>
> ... These errors
> are only reported to you after 14 retrires, which means Amazon has
> been given ample opportunity to resolve any network issues.
> ...

Actually, the 2.6.0p2 release (and earlier) uses significantly different
values.
The maximum number of retries is only 5 and the resulting time is fairly
short (the backoff increases exponentially). I believe that 2.6.0p2 only
waits a a couple seconds

If the bucket you're trying to backup to isn't created yet, that's
probably the problem. If the problem persists, I'd recommend either
trying the beta or compiling a copy from source, tweaking the values in
device-src/s3.c .

Specifically, you'd want to change the values
#define EXPONENTIAL_BACKOFF_START_USEC 10000
#define EXPONENTIAL_BACKOFF_MAX_RETRIES 5
to
#define EXPONENTIAL_BACKOFF_START_USEC G_USEC_PER_SEC/100
#define EXPONENTIAL_BACKOFF_MAX_RETRIES 14

Regards,
-- 
        Nikolas Coukouma
        Design Engineer, Zmanda, Inc.
        http://www.zmanda.com/

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