Re: [Duplicity-talk] slowness+ ftp timeouts with 0.4.3-rc1

[Charles Knowlton]

Couldn't you just send a keep alive to the ftp server to keep the  
connection active?
I assume that most ftp servers support this feature.

Charles

On May 31, 2007, at 8:40 AM, Kenneth Loafman wrote:

> Nicolas Aspert wrote:
> > Hello
> > Kenneth Loafman wrote:
> > > I've checked in a new version of backends.py and attached a patch  
> > > for
> > > you to try out, if you would.  I seem to have only good  
> > > connections to
> > > all the FTP servers I can access, so cannot test this out.
> > I have tested 0.4.3-rc2+patch and the incremental backup worked fine.
> > Note that my timeouts are not due to a poor connection, as my ftp  
> > backup
> > box is on my lan ! Maybe the incremental backups do not send data  
> > often
> > enough and thus result in an ftp timeout ?
>
> Now that's a good hypothesis for the connection problem.  FTP has a  
> NOOP
> command that we could use to keep the connection active.  I would just
> need a thread to send it periodically.  I'll check into it.
>
> ...Ken
>
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