New user : first backup broken pipe

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I’m using restic for the first time. Using Backblaze B2 as my backend. Every time I execute a backup, about an hour in, I get a broken pipe error and the process stops. I understand that this is because the ssh connection failed. What can be done to solve the problem?

I’m running Restic on Fedora 27.

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Try again with restic 0.8.1 which was just released. There was an issue with handling SIGPIPE that caused this problem on restic 0.8.0. I updated to a beta version after 0.8.0 and it fixed the issue for me.

The problem is discussed in this bug report (ignore the issue title and read the thread if you’re interested):

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Thanks so much for the help. Release 0.8.1 did in fact solve the broken pipe issue for me and I was able to complete a large (1 Tb) backup successfully.

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Great! I’m glad it worked out for you. I was in a similar situation with B2 and a 1.4 TB backup set and all is well with restic 0.8.1.