Re: [rdiff-backup-users] ssh timeout error interrupts backup

[Martin Pool]

On  1 Jul 2004, Adam Rosi-Kessel <address@hidden> wrote:
> I have a DLink DI-604 router, which times out ssh connections unavoidably
> after a certain amount of inactivity.  I suspect, but don't know for
> certain, that this is why my rdiff-backup jobs usually don't
> complete--I'm trying to mirror a 20G drive (over a standard cable modem
> connection with slow uplink, and a slow CPU on the mirror) so I believe
> that there are sometimes long periods of inactivity and thus the ssh
> connection is dropped.

You probably want to set the ServerAliveInterval option in
~/.ssh/config (aka ProtocolKeepAlives, aka something else for SSHv1).
This makes it send a little bit of traffic every while to keep the
connection alive from the router's point of view.  Seems to work for
me.

-- 
Martin