Re: 'Connection lost'

[Colin Percival <cperciva@tarsnap.com>]

Oops, just realized that I hit 'reply' rather than 'reply all' earlier...

Greg Eden wrote:
> However I've noticed that the cron job that ran on Mon, Mar
> 8, 2010 at 3:31 AM failed with:
> 
> tarsnap: Connection lost, waiting 30 seconds before reconnecting
> tarsnap: Connection lost, waiting 60 seconds before reconnecting
> tarsnap: Connection lost, waiting 90 seconds before reconnecting
> tarsnap: Connection lost, waiting 90 seconds before reconnecting
> tarsnap: Too many network failures
> tarsnap: Error creating new archive

There was a short outage on Monday morning when Amazon suddenly moved
one of the SDB endpoints -- I'm taking steps to make sure Tarsnap isn't
affected if this happens again.

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Colin Percival
Security Officer, FreeBSD | freebsd.org | The power to serve
Founder / author, Tarsnap | tarsnap.com | Online backups for the truly paranoid