Re: [rdiff-backup-users] Fatal Error: Lost connection to the remote system

[Øyvind Skaar]

On 09. juni 2013 12:33, Grant wrote:
> > Are you running this over the internet? I wouldn't advise this precisely
> > because of these sorts of problems. rdiff-backup really needs a reliable
> > connection, rsync is better for backup over the internet. If you need the
> > extra functionality of rdiff-backup, either run rdiff-backup locally on the
> > remote system (or its lan) and then rsync the resulting repository to your
> > laptop, or rsync the data from remote to your laptop and then use
> > rdiff-backup locally on your laptop. I do the former.
>
> Thank you, I didn't realize that was a best practice.  Is this
> documented anywhere?


This might be a good idea, but FYI I currently run a nightly over 
Internet without any issues.

The machine running the client (ssh connect) has this ssh config:

> cat ~/.ssh/config
> ServerAliveInterval 5



Regards,
Øyvind Skaar






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