rsync problem

[Sumit malhotra]

Adding a --checksums option should do ...
regards,
Sumit
--- Hardy Merrill <hmerrill at redhat.com> wrote:
> See below.
> 
> Jose Cheng [jcheng at math.ist.utl.pt] wrote:
> > 
> > Hello,
> > 
> > I'm trying to backup partition "/users1" on host
> "john"
> > onto partition "backup1" on host "mary".
> > 
> > Here is my rsyncd.conf:
> > 
> 
> To separate your rsync server log messages into
> their own
> file, add this line to your rsyncd.conf at the top:
> 
>   log file = /var/log/rsync
> > [backup1]
> >    path = /backup1
> >    use chroot
> >    uid root
> >    gid root
> >    auth users = backup
> >    secrets file = /etc/rsyncd.secrets
> >    strict modes = true
> >    hosts allow = 193.136.196.9
> >    hosts deny = *
> > 
> > 
> > It works with ssh as transport:
> > 
> > [root at john]#rsync -avx -e /usr/bin/ssh --progress
> /users1/
> > root at mary:/backup1
> > 
> > 
> > ...but fails with remote rsync server:
> > 
> > [root at john]# rsync -avx --progress
> --password-file=/root/rsync.passwd
> > /users1/ backup at mary::backup1
> > building file list ...
> > rsync: error writing 4092 unbuffered bytes -
> exiting: Broken pipe
> > rsync error: error in rsync protocol data stream
> (code 12) at io.c(463)
> 
> I searched on google for "rsync broken pipe" and
> found this
> link:
> 
>  
>
http://www.mail-archive.com/rsync@lists.samba.org/msg07253.html
> 
> which suggests that the error might be caused by the
> server
> dying.  The author suggests looking in the rsyncd
> log file
> (or syslog) for clues.
> 
> HTH.
> -- 
> Hardy Merrill
> Red Hat, Inc.
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