Marcelino Mata wrote at about 13:47:03 -0400 on Friday, September 18, 2009:
 > I have been testing backuppc for a few weeks with a dozen Windows
 > laptops.  I have chosen smb over rsync protocol for it's setup
 > simplicity and it's working well for what I need.  The slower speed of
 > smb backup is actually better since the users are not impacted by
 > network performance issues with a faster backup protocol like rsync.
 > I'm running the 3.1 release from the Ubuntu 9.0.4 repo.  
 >  
 > One outstanding problem is that when a Laptop user disconnects from the
 > network, backuppc never terminates the backup job.  It happily continues
 > on with "backup in progress" until I manually kill the job from the CGI
 > interface.  I just found this posting and I noticed the default time out
 > is 20 hours.
 >  
 > http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/message.php?msg_id=443678E1.8070706%4
 > 0wpkg.org
 >  
 > Is the preferred solution to change the ClientTimeout value or is there
 > another solution to address this?  Other than monitoring it with a
 > background process and sending it a kill command. 
 >  

I think a while back we had a discussion about potentially including a
test for stalled backups including 'ping' and/or a test on whether
data is still being transferred (over a suitably long period of time).

The trick is coming up with the right 'heuristic' for judging when a
backup is truly and irreversibly stalled.

The problem with ClientTimeout is that it is just an arbitrary number
- set it too short and you are liable to timeout during backups that
are appropriately taking a long time. Set it too long and you have to
wait that length until the process is killed and restarted.

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