On Wed, Apr 09, 2008 at 09:20:13AM -0400, David Birnbaum wrote:
> Does anyone have a workaround or fix for this?  Is it possible to change 
> BackupPC so it doesn't remove the in-progress file, but instead
> copies it into the pool so rsync will pick up where it left off last time?
> There doesn't seem to be any downside to leaving off on the transfer
> where it was.

I tried playing with adding --partial to the rsync args, but it didn't
seem to do anything. Looking at the man page, --partial doesn't seem
like it is supported, os it probably has to be added to File::RsyncP.

> There is one other problem related to this (and big backups in
> general) - sometimes, there is enough delay that one of the rsync
> connections will timeout due to the firewall not seeing activity on
> the socket.  Is there a way to force some sort of traffic (a bogus
> keepalive) on the which socket is idle to make sure it doesn't get
> prematurely severed?

My rsync command is:

$Conf{RsyncClientCmd} = '$sshPath -q -x -l backup  -C -o
   CompressionLevel=9 -c blowfish-cbc -o ServerAliveInterval=30
   $host sudo $rsyncPath $argList+';

the ServerAliveInterval should send a ping every 30 seconds.

-- 
                                -- rouilj

John Rouillard
System Administrator
Renesys Corporation
603-244-9084 (cell)
603-643-9300 x 111

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