Dropbox virtualmin upload failed! HTTP/1.0 409 Conflict (performed 3 attempts)

[erintech]

SYSTEM INFORMATION
OS type and version	Ubuntu 20.04
Webmin version	1.990
Virtualmin version	6.17-3 Pro
Related packages	SUGGESTED

Smaller domains are backing up OK, larger ones seem to have a problem:

Creating TAR file of home directory ..
.. done
Uploading archive to Dropbox ..
.. upload failed! Failed to read HTTP response line (performed 3 attempts)

… completed in 15 minutes, 1 seconds

The zipped tar should be about 6GB

Virtualmin on Ubunto 20.04 hosted on EC2 so the network should (?!) be robust

Thanks…

[Ilia]

@Jamie, do we have this issue fixed for Virtualmin 7?

[Jamie]

I’m actually debugging this right now …

[Jamie]

Ok, it looks like Virtualmin’s timeout for Dropbox API calls was too low, causing unexpected failures like this when their DNS is slow. I’ll fix that in the next Virtualmin release.

[hasse_basse1]

Hi. I just created a Dropbox account and experienced the same problem and it is very frustating. Is there a way to go into the code and change it manually unitl Virtualmin 7 comes? I need to backup!

[Ilia]

Yes, you can edit dropbox-lib.pl under Virtualmin and change the following lines and restarting Webmin afterwards:

1.

undef, $file, \$err, undef, 1, undef, undef, 5, 0, 1,

→

undef, $file, \$err, undef, 1, undef, undef, 20, 0, 1,

2. ^{(2x times)}

$file, \$out, \$err, undef, 1, undef, undef, 5, 0, 1,

→

$file, \$out, \$err, undef, 1, undef, undef, 20, 0, 1,

3.

undef, undef, 5, 0, 1, $authheaders);

→

undef, undef, 20, 0, 1, $authheaders);

[hasse_basse1]

Great, thanks, will try that.