Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi all,
I have a backup script from my work computer to my home computer for my research for multiple reasons. It's a simple rsync script, with about 5 gigs of data. (Obviously with rsync it doesn't transfer 5 GB every time.).

Recently, it has stopped working, scp also doesn't work, it simply stalls after transferring a few MB. Nothing has changed on the server end. I can SSH in to the server, but it is a lot less reliable than it has been in the past, it'll often result in a broken pipe error. Sometimes it'll just freeze and refuse to give me a new prompt.

I don't know what could have happened, nor do I know what to check. The bandwidth of the connection is plenty (upload of the client is 300 MB/s, DL of the server is only 20 MB/s, but is still plenty.) Most of the daily changes only result to a few MB or so, and the script used to finish within a few seconds, now it just hangs on rsync and eventually quits most recently with error 255.

Any help would be appreciated.

Might your work environment have changed? What you describe sounds like a "transparent SSL proxy" is at work, which would mean that SSL-sessions are now intercepted. It might have been installed recently.

I hope this helps.

bakunin