On Tue, Oct 22, 2013 at 12:28 PM, Timothy J Massey <tmassey AT obscorp DOT com> 
wrote:
>
> Hans Kraus <hans AT hanswkraus DOT com> wrote on 10/22/2013 01:25:30 PM:
>
>
> > It was very simple: I copied the 'rsyncd.conf' file on the Clients ( all
> > Debian at the moment) from an example file, as I read in
> > <
> http://howden.net.au/thowden/2012/11/rsync-on-debian/>. Namely I did
>
> > 'cp /usr/share/doc/rsync/examples/rsyncd.conf'.
> > That example file contains the line:
> >          timeout = 600
> > After changing that value to 3600 it seems to work.
>
> 600 is way too small;  that's only 10 minutes, and there will be files that 
> take more than 10 minutes to process.
>
> Frankly, I don't believe you should have ClientTimeout set in your client 
> files;  having that set as a global default in config.pl should be fine, and 
> there the default is 72000 (as 20 hours, or 20 times longer than what you 
> have set now!).

That was a setting in the target host's rsyncd.conf, not on the
backuppc side.     'man rsyncd.conf' does indeed suggest a 10 minute
timeout but that's for 'anonymous rsync daemons', not full system
backups.

-- 
   Les Mikesell
      lesmikesell AT gmail DOT com

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