Receive more information about transfer problems in server log?

[Bas van Schaik]

Hi Dave,

Dave Markham wrote:
> What are you the Rsync options you are using ?

Clientside:
rsync -vratz --password-file=somefile --force --delete-excluded
  --delete --exclude-from=somefile --files-from=somefile

Serverside:
rsync --no-detach --daemon --config /etc/rsyncd.conf

with rsyncd.conf:
> motd file = /etc/rsyncd.motd
> log file = /var/log/rsync/rsyncd.log
> pid file = /var/run/rsyncd.pid
> secrets file = /etc/rsyncd.secrets
> read only = no
> uid = rsync
> use chroot = yes
> transfer logging = yes
> timeout = 14400
> max connections = 25
> incoming chmod = u+rw

Thanks for your help!

Regards,

 -- Bas


> 
> On 2/23/07, *Bas van Schaik* <bas at tuxes.nl <mailto:bas at tuxes.nl>> wrote:
> 
>     Hi all,
> 
>     I'm probably using the most basic rsync-setup: just running the
>     rsync-daemon and use plain transfers (no encryption or other shells,
>     plain rsync). Transfer logging is enabled.
>     I've got a lot of client machines rsyncing their backups, both Linux
>     and
>     Windows. For some rsyncs, the log tells me this:
> 
>     > 2007/02/23 02:42:04 [29077] connect from ***.nl (*.*.*.*)
>     > 2007/02/23 02:42:05 [29077] rsync to 192168162 from
>     192168162@***.nl (*.*.*.*)
>     > 2007/02/23 02:42:05 [29077] receiving file list
>     > 2007/02/23 02:42:06 [29077] IO error encountered -- skipping file
>     deletion
>     > 2007/02/23 02:42:06 [29077] rsync /
>     > 2007/02/23 02:42:06 [29077] rsync error: some files could not be
>     transferred (code 23) at main.c(872) [generator=2.6.9]
>     (all entries about PID 29077)
> 
>     I can see that something went wrong during this sync. But what exactly?
>     Which files could not be transferred exactly, and why? According to the
>     error code (23), some files where partially transferred due to an
>     error,
>     but there are no files in the transfer log! And which error did occur
>     exactly? Of course, I can browse the client logfiles every day, but that
>     isn't really an option: there are more than 50 clients!
> 
>     Can anyone help me getting more information in my server log about
>     transfer problems? Thanks!
> 
>     Regards,
> 
>       -- Bas van Schaik
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