Re: [Duplicity-talk] 0.4.3.RC4 Ready for Test

[Kenneth Loafman]

Gabriel Ambuehl wrote:
> On Saturday 02 June 2007 15:43:30 Kenneth Loafman wrote:
> > More fixes on FTP.  dAniel hAhler supplied a new patch for FTP that
> > cleans up the error handling and reduces the retry time to zero on the
> > first retry.  This should be a much more robust implementation of FTP.
>
>
> Apropos robust implementaiton: in 0.4.2, scp failures (like time outs or 
> connection droppings, which occasionally happen on some links) made the 
> backup abort (which is uhm unfortunate), does this still happen? If so, any 
> chance to add retry for scp as well?

The patch for scp retries was applied in RC1.  It needs to be tested on 
a net with connection drops.  As to never aborting, it will give up 
after a few retries, not keep trying forever.

...Ken