Re: [Duplicity-talk] scp/sftp backup fails (but not consistently)

[Kenneth Loafman]

Robin Smidsrød wrote:
> Can any of you make some sense of this error message? Everything in the
> script seems ok. I use the same script on several machines. On some
> machines it fails, but on others it works. It is run via anacron.

From what I can tell, you made it a fair way in the backup process,
getting to volume 556 before failing.  This tells me there is no setup
or other issue that could be a problem.  What I suspect is that the
network itself failed long enough to cause the backup to fail.  Its
possible that increasing the number of retries will help, setting
--num-retries=20 or higher, for example.

Do the failures happen on the same machines, or is it random?  If there
are multiple failures, are they at the same time of day?

> As you can see, no password is asked for.

If the password was being requested, it would have happened on the first
volume.  You made it to volume 556 before the problem started.

> I'm using duplicity 0.5.02 on Debian stable, which is compiled with my
> own build script (I call it build_duplicity.sh), see below:

Excellent job on the build script.  Mind if I post it to the web site?

...Ken

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