Re: Network problems last night?

[Colin Percival <cperciva@tarsnap.com>]

On 03/18/11 02:00, Arthur Chance wrote:
> My nightly backups hit problems with networking errors. First I got
> [snip]
> This was shortly after 3:00 GMT (I use tarsnap in the nightly
> periodic(8) run). Was this a tarsnap.com problem, or should I be
> checking my end of things?

Tarsnap issue.  The SDB endpoint which Tarsnap was accessing for accounting
data started timing out a lot of requests shortly before 3:00 UTC.  I fixed
this (by pointing the tarsnap server at a different SDB endpoint) and I
thought the only effect would be that some operations would take slightly
longer than normal; evidently I mis-estimated the effect of the SDB failures
vs. Tarsnap's retrying.

Sorry about the glitch.

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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