Re: [Duplicity-talk] Amazon S3/socket error problems

[Mark Wardle]

Well interestingly I have subsequently installed leopard on a
different machine in my house, and duplicity works backing up to
Amazon S3.

Perhaps this is an Apple Tiger issue?

Best wishes,

Mark



On 08/01/2008, Peter Schuller <address@hidden> wrote:
> > I repeatedly get socket errors. I have reviewed the mailing list, and
> > have seen the prior thread regarding this issue, but did not see a
> > solution posted.
>
> I see this once in a while as well; I tend to use a lower volume size with S3
> to minimize the impact.
>
> For a while (like a couple of weeks) I would see this happen *very* often, and
> transfers were slower than normal, to the point of more or less not being
> able to perform a full backup. This problem suddenly went away. The problem
> at this point also affected JungleDisk and the Ruby AWS library, so it was
> not a python/boto issue.
>
> I never got to the bottom of that, other than to see some strangeness when
> tcpdumping. I was assuming something went on with S3 that somehow got
> triggered by me running it on this connection (I had no problem during this
> period, using duplicity on my colocation machine).
>
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Dr. Mark Wardle
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