Re: [webmin-l] ftp backup sometimes failes

[Jamie C. <jca...@we...>]

On 10/Oct/2006 10:35 Pat Erler wrote ..
> On Tue, 10 Oct 2006 19:16:00 +0200, Jamie Cameron <jca...@we...>
> wrote:
> > Try running one manually from within the browser.
> problem is, the problem doesn't come up so often..
> 
> as i realized, my hosting provider had some glitches recently, where the
> NICs got disconected for a short time over night. what do you expect to
> happen in such a case, could this lead to hanging backup.pl jobs or 0 byte
> files?

It's possible .. the FTP transfer connection could start, but no data would
get transferred. In fact, if that happens intermittantly for the same backup,
I would suspect network issues.

 - Jamie