<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">Through several versions up to and including the current 3.0.9 I experience sporadic, repeating (but not predictably) errors of this form:<div><br></div><div><br></div><div><pre style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; "></pre><blockquote type="cite"><pre style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; ">rsync: make_bak_dir mkdir "/REPO/backup/XXXX-data1-20120727-040453" failed: File exists (17)
rsync: keep_backup failed: "/REPO/backup/XXXX-data1/data1/A182/tb5178/tb5178.hebb/out.TENT_warn.txt" -> "/REPO/backup/XXXX-data1-20120727-040453/data1/A182/tb5178/tb5178.hebb/out.TENT_warn.txt": No such file or directory (2)
rsync: stat "/REPO/backup/XXXX-data1-20120727-040453/data1/A182/tb5178/tb5178.hebb/out.TENT_warn.txt" failed: No such file or directory (2)
rsync error: some files/attrs were not transferred (see previous errors) (code 23) at main.c(1518) [generator=3.0.9]
</pre></blockquote><div>About 20 of the last 2000 total nightly back up jobs have failed, almost all of them with this kind of error. They never reoccur when I rerun the job. The files/directories involved appear to be random.</div><div> </div><div>Is there anything I can do? </div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>
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