rsync ssh connection in AppVM failing

[paulst...@gmail.com]

Hello,

I've recently installed Qubes-3.1 and I'm trying to rsync files from
my home desktop to my Qubes machine.

I have about 30 GB to transfer, but each time I try to pull files from
the desktop to the Qubes Personal AppVM using rsync I find it stops
transferring after about 100 to 200 MB. I'm running rsync on the
Qubes side which does not crash, but I have to kill it with Ctrl-C
as is seems to freeze.

Also, monitoring the transfer rate shows it to be very on-and-off and
stuttery with long delays where nothing is being transferred until
eventually it stops altogether.

I can run and kill rsync a few times before I get "ssh: port 22: No
route to host" messages. At this point "service sshd status" tells me
the process is "Active: inactive (dead)". I can try to restart it
with "service sshd restart" which seems to work as "service sshd status"
tells me the process is "Active: active (running)", but after this
rsync still fails with "ssh: port 22: No route to host" messages.

At this point I resort to rebooting my Qubes machine and going through
the process again with similar results.

I can do similar transfers between other home machines just fine.

Any ideas why Qubes is having problems?

Thanks

[Andrew David Wong]

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Does the AppVM have enough free space to accommodate the whole transfer?

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Andrew David Wong (Axon)
Community Manager, Qubes OS
https://www.qubes-os.org
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[paulst...@gmail.com]

>
> Does the AppVM have enough free space to accommodate the whole transfer?
>

Andrew, thanks for your reply. Yes, my AppVM does have enough space for the transfer (I increased the space from the standard 2 GB to 32 GB. However, it's not getting anywhere close to transferring all the data. It only managed a few 100 MB before freezing. This evening I will install Qubes on another (old) laptop to see if I have the same problem on different hardware.

[paulst...@gmail.com]

Hello Andrew, I just want to say that whatever was causing my previous problems is no longer doing so. Even though I'm doing nothing differently, rsync is running fine now. Thank you, Paul