Re: About network failures while uploading

[tarsnap <tarsnap@infopower.nl>]

Continuing a thread from Jul 2011, I would like to know if in case of
backing up 1 file (>1 GB) and tarsnap quitting due to 'Too many network
failures', parts of the file are retained on the server, and re-used
when repeating the backup command in tarsnap.

I got the uncomfortable feeling that the error message I got: "Error
closing archive", means 'NO'.

Further I wonder why the backup fails already after 4 errors looking up
betatest-server.tarsnap.com. This way, with my quite unstable network
connection, I'm afraid the uploading will never complete.

Thanks


This is what happened:

[user ~]$ tarsnap -c --cachedir tarsnap -f
anon-web_some-big-file --keyfile tarsnap/anon-web.key some-big-file
tarsnap: Error looking up betatest-server.tarsnap.com: Name or service
not known tarsnap: Using cached DNS lookup tarsnap: Error looking up
betatest-server.tarsnap.com: Name or service not known tarsnap: Using
cached DNS lookup tarsnap: Error looking up
betatest-server.tarsnap.com: Name or service not known tarsnap: Using
cached DNS lookup tarsnap: Error looking up
betatest-server.tarsnap.com: Name or service not known tarsnap: Using
cached DNS lookup tarsnap: Error looking up
betatest-server.tarsnap.com: Name or service not known tarsnap: Using
cached DNS lookup tarsnap: Error looking up
betatest-server.tarsnap.com: Name or service not known tarsnap: Using
cached DNS lookup tarsnap: Connection lost, waiting 30 seconds before
reconnecting tarsnap: Error looking up betatest-server.tarsnap.com:
Name or service not known tarsnap: Using cached DNS lookup tarsnap:
Connection lost, waiting 60 seconds before reconnecting tarsnap: Error
looking up betatest-server.tarsnap.com: Name or service not known
tarsnap: Using cached DNS lookup tarsnap: Connection lost, waiting 90
seconds before reconnecting tarsnap: Connection re-established tarsnap:
Error looking up betatest-server.tarsnap.com: Name or service not known
tarsnap: Using cached DNS lookup tarsnap: Error looking up
betatest-server.tarsnap.com: Name or service not known tarsnap: Using
cached DNS lookup tarsnap: Error looking up
betatest-server.tarsnap.com: Name or service not known tarsnap: Using
cached DNS lookup tarsnap: Error looking up
betatest-server.tarsnap.com: Name or service not known tarsnap: Using
cached DNS lookup tarsnap: Too many network failures
tarsnap: Error closing archive
tarsnap: Error exit delayed from previous errors.
[user ~]$