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<div>I have a small rsync script to sync my data to a usb-disk. It works fine, when I start it in console. I get 3 rsync processes (look in top) and the backup takes ~25 min. But, when I add the script in cron to start it at 1am at night it takes 7 - 9 hours and I see up to 180 processes. When I look in top I see a hight load of 60 - 80 and 40 - 60 waits. Why? Can someone explain why it takes so long when it starts with cron?</div>
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<div>This is my rsync command: rsync -azc --delete "$QUELLORDNER" "$ZIELORDNER" </div>
<div>This is the entry in cron (crontab -e): * 2 * * * /root/backupscript/backup.sh</div>
<div>Data to sync: 18 Gb, 185.000 files.</div>
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<div>When I look in the log files I see errors like this: </div>
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<div><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">rsync: rename </span><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">"/media/usb/sicherung/var/lib/fail2ban/.fail2ban.sqlite3.JCzY1c" -> </span><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">"var/lib/fail2ban/fail2ban.sqlite3": No such file or directory (2) </span></div>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">rsync error: some files/attrs were not transferred (see previousrsync error:</span></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">some files/attrs were not transferred (see previous errors) (code 23) at</span></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">main.c(1196) [sender=3.1.2]</span></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">directory (2)</span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoPlainText"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Can you help me to solve this problem?</span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoPlainText"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">regards,</span></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Hannes Hutmacher</span></span></p>
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