Hello, I think I may have found the answer to the archive dropping out, but I won't know for certain until the backup completes I'm not allowed to post link's, but there is a known issue with running Linux under HyperV - relating to networking. Disabling VMQ.

Hello, I've run a ping test to the remote server and when the creation of the tar archive hangs, the ping test shows packet loss to the remote server. But I know that the remote site is accessible, because there are transfers being done from other sites at the same time which are not dropping out. This appears to be an issue with either ReaR or my local host.

Hello, A correction to my earlier post. Rear is hanging during the creation of the tar archive. It just reaches a point between 1 - 2GB and it stops. There is no error being recorded in the log?

Hello Juan, A really useful article, thanks for sharing. I'm relatively new to Linux and ReaR, although I have some ReaR experience having already setting up a local backup; your guide on configuring sshfs was very helpful. I had an issue with the sshfs authentication initially. I wanted to use the public key authentication and I followed the instructions, but was still being prompted for a password initially. I worked out that I needed to change the OUTPUT_URL and BACKUP_URL from user@host to just host. This may be obvious to someone who is experienced with sshfs; but perhaps you could add a comment about this for newbie's. A couple of questions Q1. I noticed with my first test backup. After creating the recovery ISO, during the tar archive, the Internet must have been disrupted and rear appears to have hung during this step. Do you know if there are settings to configure a timeout? I'm planning on scheduling the backups rather than doing them manually. So I'll need to be able to cope with this. Q2. With local backups, you can use USB_RETAIN_BACKUP_NR=10 to configure the number of copies retained. Do you know if there is a similar setting for sshfs? Thanks again VW