Re: Network issues?

[Colin Percival <cperciva@tarsnap.com>]

Hi all,

On 12/24/13 03:48, Gabriel Kerneis wrote:
> since the last few hours, I get many network failures when creating new
> archives. I first noticed tarsnap aborting; now, it seems to cope better,
> simply giving warnings about connections (successfully) re-established.
> 
> Is it just me (I'm running backups from France) or is this an issue on the
> tarsnap server side?

Server side -- it was overloaded and dropping connections.  The tarsnap
client code is designed to handle this up to a point, but clearly a few
too many connections got dropped.

It should be back to normal now (since roughly when you sent that email
in fact) and I'm working on improving the resilience under load.

-- 
Colin Percival
Security Officer Emeritus, FreeBSD | The power to serve
Founder, Tarsnap | www.tarsnap.com | Online backups for the truly paranoid