rsync erroring out when syncing a large tree

[Mark Watts]

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I'm trying to sync a mandrakelinux tree (~120GB) but it bombs out after a 
while with this error:

rsync: connection unexpectedly closed (289336107 bytes read so far)
rsync error: error in rsync protocol data stream (code 12) at io.c(189)
rsync: writefd_unbuffered failed to write 4092 bytes: phase "unknown": Broken 
pipe
rsync error: error in rsync protocol data stream (code 12) at io.c(666)

The exact command used is:

rsync -av --stats --progress --partial --delete-after --bwlimit=2000 
rsync://mirrors.usc.edu/mandrakelinux/ /export/ftp/mandrakelinux

$RSYNC_PROXY is set to be a squid proxy, which is very reliable for other 
forms of transfer (ftp/http)

It's synching to a 1.6TB raid array, which still has over 1TB free, so its not 
a space issue.

Anyone know a) what causes this error and b) how I can get round it?

Cheers,

Mark.

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Mark Watts
Senior Systems Engineer
QinetiQ Trusted Information Management
Trusted Solutions and Services group
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