Re: [rdiff-backup-users] Intermittent connection failures

[Jussi Hirvi]

On 5.7.2011 16.13, Dominic Raferd wrote:
> I agree. IMO rdiff-backup should never be run over an internet
> connection, only on a stable local network. If you want to get the
> rdiff-backup data offsite, create your rdiff-backup repository locally
> and then use rsync to mirror it to the offsite location. This is the
> technique used for TimeDicer primary/mirror servers.

Thanks for all the input. I am now trying Dominic's solution, modified 
(because I have easier hands-on access to the target machine):

First I rsync the data from source to target machine, then I use that to 
make a local rdiff-backup archive.

(Good luck that 2TB HDs are already so inexpensive.)

If it works, then we will know that the errors were related to unstable 
network connection - as I beliebe they were. Too bad I did not get more 
exact information on the causes. I did increase verbosity both in 
rdiff-backup and ssh, but all I found out was that the connection seems 
to break now and then, quite irregularly.

- Jussi