On Sat, Mar 3, 2012 at 5:40 PM, Chris Mavrakis <
cmavr8 AT gmail DOT com> wrote:
> BackupPC works good on my LAN but has problems backing-up a remote server of
> mine. I'm using rsync over ssh and have increased max ping to 500 because
> the remote server is far away.
>
> Almost always the transfer is ending after 1h01'or 1h02'. These values in
> seconds are 3660 and 3720. Maybe they appear in some option...?
>
> If I manually login to this remote ssh server, and leave my terminal
> untouched for 1h26" I get disconnected. Looks like this is the reason
> BackupPC gets disconnected, too. Is there any way to simulate the execution
> of commands inside BackupPC's session?
>
> What I've tried and didn't work:
>
> - ServerAliveInterval=300, ServerAliveInterval=60
>
> - increased PingMaxMsec to 500
>
> - rsync options --timeout and --contimeout set to 20 and 200 seconds (both
> values tried on both options)
>
> - removing block-size option from rsync
>
> Nothing worked. It usually stops in different files, independently of their
> size.