For some reason I keep getting an alert about the transport failing to prune the incremental backups. Shows “ssh slave failed: timed out”

Going to the backup server shows that the directories have been pruned. This makes the alert a bit confusing.

It appears that others are experiencing the same problem.

https://forums.cpanel.net/threads/remote-incremental-backups-timeouts.606911/page-3

https://forums.cpanel.net/threads/error-pruning-ssh-slave-failed-timed-out.627691/

You can check the backup log to see if it gives you any errors or ideas on what the problem is. Replace {currentdate} with the date of the log file you want.

/usr/local/cpanel/logs/cpbackup/{currentdate}.log

One thing to try is to increase the time out on the

In WHM, go to Backup -> Backup Configuration -> Additional Destinations -> Your Destination
Scroll down to the bottom and enter a higher timeout value

One user said they patched the rsync.pm file. Looks like there may be a 30 second timeout for rsync, so maybe increasing that would help.

/usr/local/cpanel/Cpanel/Transport/Files/Rsync.pm