Thanks.

I guess I'll kill it with a timeout & retry.  I know I'm nowhere near quota.

Cheers! :)

P.S. Thanks for replying so quickly.  I was expecting days, it wasn't even an hour!

On 29/01/2021 19:44, Ondřej Jirman wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 29, 2021 at 06:58:30PM +0000, Todd M. Hébert wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>> I find that a couple of times per month, some automated scripts I have for backing up my data end up having difficulties with megaput.
>>
>> Sometimes megaput "stalls" and never recovers, but also never exits... so the backup process can stay running for days, without any data transfer taking place.
> Yes, there's an infinite retry loop when quotas run out. As someone
> requested this feature long time ago.
>
> But I'm not sure how mega.nz API behaves, because it's undocumented,
> so it may not recover without restarting the upload completely,
> which megatools don't do, in case of quota errors.
>
> It may also be that the retry loop hits for other errors too. I don't
> know.
>
>> I'd like to be able to find a way to send it a signal that will cause it to re-establish it's connection and continue sending, if possible.
>>
>>
>> (alternately, I'll be using a timeout to kill it and restart the transfer.)
>>
>> I cannot find a list of the KILL signals that megaput understands, and what actions it takes on receiving same.
>>
>> Is there such a list?  If so... where might I find it?
> It doesn't capture any signals itself. All signals use default handling.
>
> regards,
> 	o.
>
>> Thanks! :)
>>
>>