How Does Rsync Behave ?

[Dave Dykstra]

On Fri, Dec 07, 2001 at 03:16:17PM -0600, Chao,Eisen R. wrote:
> Hi All:
> 
> I am going thru the documentation and I noticed that there is some talk
> about
> returning error codes. Some Q:s
> 
> * If rsync encounters a network error, does it do retries ?
>   Can you control the # of retries ?

No, rsync doesn't do any retries itself.  It relies on TCP to provide
it with a reliable pipe.

> *  Do the rsync client & server stop running upon encountering an error ?
>    Can you tell rsync to stop upon the first error encountered ?

They will stop after the first error returned from TCP.

> * If the remote rsync encounters an error that is local, say a disk I/O
> error,
>   does this error get eventually sent back to the client ? If so, can you
>   encapsulate rsync inside of a shell script to react different ways
> depending
>   upon the returned result code from the remote copy of rsync ?

I'm not too sure about that, I think people have complained that it isn't
very good at passing error codes back.

- Dave Dykstra