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[DOC] #3866 - Add FAQ for preventing SSH timeout in extract. (#4782)
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Add FAQ for preventing SSH timeout in extract, fixes #3866
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fantasya-pbem authored and ThomasWaldmann committed Oct 19, 2019
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Common issues
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Why does Borg extract hang after some time?
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When I do a ``borg extract``, after a while all activity stops, no cpu usage,
no downloads.

This may happen when the SSH connection is stuck on server side. You can
configure SSH on client side to prevent this by sending keep-alive requests,
for example in ~/.ssh/config:

::

Host borg.example.com
# Client kills connection after 3*30 seconds without server response:
ServerAliveInterval 30
ServerAliveCountMax 3

You can also do the opposite and configure SSH on server side in
/etc/ssh/sshd_config, to make the server send keep-alive requests to the client:

::

# Server kills connection after 3*30 seconds without client response:
ClientAliveInterval 30
ClientAliveCountMax 3

How can I deal with my very unstable SSH connection?
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If you have issues with lost connections during long-running borg commands, you
could try to work around:

- Make partial extracts like ``borg extract REPO PATTERN`` to do multiple
smaller extraction runs that complete before your connection has issues.
- Try using ``borg mount REPO MOUNTPOINT`` and ``rsync -avH`` from
``MOUNTPOINT`` to your desired extraction directory. If the connection breaks
down, just repeat that over and over again until rsync does not find anything
to do any more. Due to the way borg mount works, this might be less efficient
than borg extract for bigger volumes of data.

Why do I get "connection closed by remote" after a while?
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