[Box Backup] Need to reload bbackupd conf to avoid timeouts?

[Chris Wilson]

Hi Tobias, Ben and all,

On Thu, 2 Nov 2006, Tobias Balle-Petersen wrote:

> I have had this problem for a while. Here is an older log from the 
> client showing the error:
[...]
> Aug 24 11:20:44 yoiko bbackupd[11514]: TRACE: Deleted directory record for 
> /Volumes/raidA/files/guests/Bergen Bybane\n
> Aug 24 11:20:44 yoiko bbackupd[11514]: TRACE: Deleted directory record for 
> /Volumes/raidA/files/guests/Library1\n
> Aug 24 11:41:58 yoiko bbackupd[11514]: TRACE: Exception thrown: 
> ConnectionException(Conn_TLSReadFailed) at SocketStreamTLS.cpp(361)\n
> Aug 24 11:41:58 yoiko bbackupd[11514]: TRACE: Exception thrown: 
> ConnectionException(Conn_TLSWriteFailed) at SocketStreamTLS.cpp(426)\n
> Aug 24 11:41:59 yoiko bbackupd[11514]: Exception caught (Connection 
> TLSReadFailed 7/34), reset state and waiting to retry...

I have an idea what the problem might be. If bbackupd spends a long time 
scanning directories without sending anything to the server (which might 
well be the case if you have 1 Tb of data in mainly small files) then the 
connection could still time out. The KeepAliveTime relates only to sending 
keepalives while diffing a single file. It does nothing while bbackupd is 
scanning directories.

Tobias, I could come up with a patched version against trunk which does 
implement keepalives while scanning directories if you're willing to test 
it.

Cheers, Chris.
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