Re: [Duplicity-talk] Backend for Amazon S3

[daacyy302]

Eric Evans wrote:
> Yes, boto will retry once before raising an exception. The only
> situations I've personally encountered where that wasn't enough
> were outright outages on Amazon's end. 
>
> By contrast, the bitbucket backend will retry every 10 seconds 
> indefinately, (it seems to be the only backend that does that). I'm not
> sure how others feel about that, but it might be rather annoying if 
> duplicity were being run non-interactively and the error condition
> persisted.
>   

I submitted the patch that makes the current S3 backend retry 
indefinitely because a single retry consistently failed during my 
backups.  I agree that the current behavior may be annoying, and can be 
improved, but a single retry isn't sufficient.

Bob