[Box Backup] Need to reload bbackupd conf to avoid timeouts?

Tobias Balle-Petersen boxbackup at fluffy.co.uk
Tue Nov 14 08:34:19 GMT 2006


Hello.

Touching the hidden files prior to backup-runs seems to have solved my problem.

Tobias


Tobias Balle-Petersen wrote:
> To test if touching files can avoid my timeouts, I have created a
> cronjob to create hidden files that will be touched daily prior to the
> backup run. I will report back with the result.
> 
> My command to create the hidden files called .no_timeout:
> find clients -type d -maxdepth 1 -mindepth 1 -exec touch {}/.no_timeout \;
> 
> Tobias
> 
> 
> tbp wrote:
>> Hi Chris.
>>
>> I guess I could create som hidden files in my directories and touch those.
>>
>> Thank you for all your hard work on Box Backup!
>>
>> Tobias
>>
>>
>> Chris Wilson wrote:
>>> Hi Tobias,
>>>
>>>> Maybe I could run the touch command on some of the directories in my
>>>> file hierarchy and avoid the timeouts that way?
>>> Touching files might well work, I don't think touching directories would.
>>>
>>> I'm still working on the keepalive code, I'm afraid it turned into a
>>> bigger rewrite than I had hoped. I hope to have a new version ready for
>>> you to test soon.
>>>
>>> Cheers, Chris.
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