rsync timeout non-effective

[Kevin Korb]

You are using rsync over ssh.  The connection timeout (and port) options 
don't matter if rsync isn't doing the networking.

On 9/1/22 08:49, Roland via rsync wrote:
> hello,
> 
> i do some backup via rsync/ssh and pull data from remote machine to
> local machine.
> 
> whenever on remote machine there is some network attached subdir getting
> "stuck" (i.e. read/write is blocking, eg. by suspended zfs pool because
> of error), rsync backup also hangs forever.
> 
> i wonder what's the purpose of "--timeout" then.
> 
> local machine:  3.1.2
> remote machine: 3.2.3
> 
> command
> rsync -avi --stats --delete --delete-excluded --inplace --numeric-ids
> --out-format=%-15i %-15b %-15l %-20M %n%L --timeout=900
> --rsync-path=export PATH=/usr/local/bin:$PATH;rsync
> --exclude-from=/backup/rsync.exclude.all
> --exclude-from=/zfspool/backup/myhost/rsync.exclude root at myhost:/
> /zfspool/backup/myhost/backup
> 
> 
> 
> what can i do to make this more robust ?
> 
> rsync should not hang, as it's getting started via script and the hang
> blocks backup of other hosts.
> 
> 
> roland
> 
> 
> 

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