send_files failed to open filename ...

[jw schultz]

On Thu, Jan 23, 2003 at 03:38:34PM +0300, Do-Risika RAFIEFERANTSIARONJY wrote:
> 
> Hi everybody,
> 
> I'm mirroring some websites with rsync (daemon on the source), and I 
> noticed in the destination host some error messages 'send_files failed 
> to open filenames',
> 
> Actually, the concerned files are deleted on the source host, but I 
> would like to ask :
> 
> * why does rsync say these (in which phase) ?

Because the files were deleted from the source between the
initial tree scan and send_files.
These would be files that meta-data indicates are changed.
send_files is what calculates and sends the deltas.

> * is these messages harmful or not ?

Not harmful.  It is an indication of the volatility of the
source at the time of transfer.

Having some files disappear could result in an inconsistant
state.  For example: a web repository where the delete
happens between index.html and gif or link destinations on
which it depends.  Just a caution.  It could be worthwhile
to test the log for these messages and rerun if their count
exeeds some threshold, say zero.  For an active site i'd
suggest double-buffering.

> Here below my rsync command and some of the error messages :
> 
> rsync --delete -zrv --bwlimit=$bwlimit --timeout=1200 
> --exclude-from='/etc/rsync/exclude'  $user\@" . $server . 
> "::htdocs/$dir/ /var/www/htdocs/$dir/
> 
> 
> send_files failed to open 
> www.lft.mg/matieres/svt/Evaluations/CLASSE.GIF: No such file or directory
> send_files failed to open 
> www.lft.mg/matieres/svt/Evaluations/COUPES.GIF: No such file or directory
> send_files failed to open 
> www.lft.mg/matieres/svt/Evaluations/DBasalte.gif: No such file or directory
> send_files failed to open 
> www.lft.mg/matieres/svt/Evaluations/SCH<C9>MA.gif: No such file or directory
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