On Wed, Sep 4, 2013 at 4:04 AM, Yann Bordenave
<yann.bordenave AT smartjog DOT com> wrote:

> I have some updates: the full backup is passing.
> The full process is taking about an hour and a half and I set a timeout
> of 20 hours.
> The 'sparse' problem could occur while doing a full backup ?
> Because apparently, only the incremental one is hanging.
> My target is a linux.
>
> If it can help, here is the logs from the rsyncd of my target:
>
> 2013/09/04 08:00:23 [32503] connect from backupserver (IP addr)
> 2013/09/04 08:00:23 [32503] rsync on . from backupserver (IP addr)
> 2013/09/04 08:00:23 [32503] building file list
> 2013/09/04 08:42:08 [32503] rsync: writefd_unbuffered failed to write 4
> bytes to socket [sender]: Connection timed out (110)
> 2013/09/04 08:42:08 [32503] rsync error: error in rsync protocol data
> stream (code 12) at io.c(1532) [sender=3.0.9]
>
> and as I said before, the process on backuppc is still alive.
>
> Thanks for your insights.


Is there a NAT router or stateful firewall between the server and
target?  Those devices can have idle timeouts for connections and
block if they are exceeded, and it is possible for rsync to have long
idle periods when everything matches.

-- 
   Les Mikesell
     lesmikesell AT gmail DOT com

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