Re: [Duplicity-talk] Backend for Amazon S3

[Charles Knowlton]

Maybe there could be an option for how many times you want it to  
retry that way the user
has more control over how many times it retries instead of it be  
indefinitely

Charles

On Jul 8, 2007, at 1:29 AM, address@hidden wrote:

> Eric Evans wrote:
> > Yes, boto will retry once before raising an exception. The only
> > situations I've personally encountered where that wasn't enough
> > were outright outages on Amazon's end.
> > By contrast, the bitbucket backend will retry every 10 seconds  
> > indefinately, (it seems to be the only backend that does that).  
> > I'm not
> > sure how others feel about that, but it might be rather annoying  
> > if duplicity were being run non-interactively and the error condition
> > persisted.
>
> I submitted the patch that makes the current S3 backend retry  
> indefinitely because a single retry consistently failed during my  
> backups.  I agree that the current behavior may be annoying, and  
> can be improved, but a single retry isn't sufficient.
>
> Bob
>
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