[Fwd: Re: meaning of "IO Error: skipping the delete...."]]

[Nitin Agarwal]

Dear Mr. Rusty,
Today I recd one more error while running rsync:
"Unexpected EOF in read_timeout"

Further, as I told u our data is very huge (i.e. 100 GB), and it consists of large no. of
files and not few files of large sizes.

Kindly advice.

Regards
Nitin Agarwal



Rusty Carruth wrote:

> Nitin Agarwal <nitin.agarwal at timesgroup.com> wrote:
> > Dear Mr. Rusty,
> > Thanks for the reply. The problem was sorted out by changing the uid option in
> > rsyncd.conf file to root.
> > We are facing two more problem now....
> > 1) while transferring the files, sometimes the transfer breaks in between and gives
> > us the error message: "readerror: connection reset by peer"
>
> I know that there's a patch someone submitted a while back that
> may (or may not) fix that one.  I don't remember where it is, so I'm
> sending this to the list also in hopes that this will jog someone's memory ;-)
>
> > 2) sometimes it shows error message: "Erroring writing 4092 bytes - exiting".
>
> It may be related to (1) above (that's what I'd guess first, anyway).
> Again, hopefully someone on the list (probably the patch author) will chime
> in with the info.
>
> > Thanks & Regards
> >
> > We are having a large file system (approx. 100 GB).
>
> Oh - now that's an interesting fact.  Do you perhaps have LOTS of little
> files, or a few really big files?  I recall that there's a possible issue
> of one side deciding that the other side had gone away because that other
> side was busy calculating and did not reply in time.  There's a timeout
> value somewhere that you can make longer that may fix the problem also -
> I'd try that first.  Unfortunately I'm not sure of the name of the config
> option - check the documents and also look in the config file itself...
>
> > Regards
> > Nitin Agarwal
>
> Hope this helps!
>
> rc