Re: [Duplicity-talk] FTP timeout

[Thomas Braad Toft]

Hello,

Jesper Lund wrote:
> Servage is cheap if you need lots of space (and who doesn't), but their 
> FTP servers are known for timeout problems. I use Servage myself, but I 
> have switched to a different strategy in order to ftp my duplicity 
> backup to their servers. I make the duplicity backup to my harddisk 
> (well, a share on my home server, actually), and use the lftp program to 
> sync the backup share with my Servage FTP account (this is done by a 
> cron job in my case)
> http://www.linux.com/feature/122169

Well, I considered something like that when I started doing backup to 
Servage. To spare some diskspace locally I ended with a num-retries=50 
in Duplicity - it's lame, but actually works quite well.

Kenneth: Setting the timeout limit solved my timeout problem, thanks! 
It's not mentioned in the man-page.

--
Thomas