Re: [Duplicity-talk] slowness+ ftp timeouts with 0.4.3-rc1

[Kenneth Loafman]

Nicolas Aspert wrote:
> Hello
>
> Kenneth Loafman wrote:
> > I've checked in a new version of backends.py and attached a patch for
> > you to try out, if you would.  I seem to have only good connections to
> > all the FTP servers I can access, so cannot test this out.
>
> I have tested 0.4.3-rc2+patch and the incremental backup worked fine.
> Note that my timeouts are not due to a poor connection, as my ftp backup
> box is on my lan ! Maybe the incremental backups do not send data often
> enough and thus result in an ftp timeout ?

Now that's a good hypothesis for the connection problem.  FTP has a NOOP
command that we could use to keep the connection active.  I would just
need a thread to send it periodically.  I'll check into it.

...Ken