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

[Kenneth Loafman]

Mark Wardle wrote:
> Dear all,
> 
> I am having a similar problem.
> 
> I get 60k upload speeds and the file appears to transfer completely.
> 
> duplicity --encrypt-key=XXXX --sign-key=XXXX -v9 /home/mark 
> ${TARGET}/home_mark
> 
> 
> Running 'scp  /tmp/duplicity-h4YJLd-tempdir/mktemp-RszhiG-2
> address@hidden:eldritch/home_mark/duplicity-full.2008-10-07T10:54:26+01:00.vol1.difftar.gpg'
> (attempt #4)
> State = copying, Before = 'mktemp-RszhiG-2
>     0%    0     0.0KB/s   --:--'
> State = copying, Before = 'mktemp-RszhiG-2
>    41% 2112KB   2.1MB/s   00:01'
> <----- cut ---->
> State = copying, Before = 'mktemp-RszhiG-2
>   100% 5116KB  91.4KB/s   00:56'
> Timeout waiting for response
> 
> 
> Each attempt occurs similarly. Not entirely consistently however, but
> the timeout occurs when scp shows 100%. Presumably, this is a network
> timeout or bottleneck probably (remote server via public internet and
> slow ADSL).
> 
> Any simple way of increasing timeout limit?

Use the option --timeout=100 to set a 100 second timeout.  I don't know
if that will help, but it may.

...Ken

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