Can't Figure out why rsync job stops

[jw schultz]

On Thu, Jan 29, 2004 at 03:36:51PM -0600, Bryan Sauser wrote:
> I connecting to two offsite over servers, that are connected over dedicated
> T1 lines. I'm using the same script on both servers. One runs fine, but the
> other starts, gets the file list and processes a few folders. Then it will
> hang for about 5 minutes before sptting out the following errors:
> 
> 
> receiving file list ...
> 16756 files to consider
> dslagel/
> dslagel/DRIVERS/
> dslagel/DRIVERS/ATP_PKG/
> dslagel/DRIVERS/ATP_PKG/Desktop/
> dslagel/DRIVERS/ATP_PKG/System32/
> dslagel/DRIVERS/ATP_PKG/Temp/
> dslagel/DRIVERS/ATP_PKG/Windows/
> dslagel/DRIVERS/ATP_PKG/Windows/PCHEALTH/
> dslagel/DRIVERS/ATP_PKG/Windows/PCHEALTH/HELPCTR/
> dslagel/DRIVERS/ATP_PKG/Windows/PCHEALTH/HELPCTR/BATCH/
> dslagel/DRIVERS/ATP_PKG/Windows/help/
> dslagel/DRIVERS/ATP_PKG/chms/
> dslagel/DRIVERS/ATP_PKG/icons/
> dslagel/DRIVERS/ATP_PKG/images/
> dslagel/DRIVERS/ATP_PKG/images/large/
> dslagel/DRIVERS/ATP_PKG/images/small/
> dslagel/DRIVERS/W2K/
> dslagel/DRIVERS/W2K/DISPLAY/
> dslagel/DRIVERS/W2K/DISPLAY/BIN/
> dslagel/DRIVERS/W2K/DISPLAY/PHILDEC/
> dslagel/DRIVERS/W2K/DISPLAY/PHILDEC/WDM_2K/
> dslagel/DRIVERS/W2K/DISPLAY/R62K/
> dslagel/DRIVERS/W2K/DISPLAY/R62K/ATIDRIVE/
> rsync: writefd_unbuffered failed to write 4092 bytes: phase "unknown":
> Connection timed out
> rsync: connection unexpectedly closed (294104 bytes read so far)
> rsync error: error in rsync protocol data stream (code 12) at io.c(666)
> rsync error: received SIGUSR1 or SIGINT (code 20) at main.c(886)
> 
> I have tried making the job smaller. Changing to different folder with
> different file, but It always acts like this.
> I am running rsync  version 2.6.0  protocol version 27 on all of the
> servers. My to offsite servers, and local backup server.
> 
> Here is the OS information for the servers.
> 
> Local: Linux version 2.4.18-14smp (bhcompile at stripples.devel.redhat.com)
> (gcc version 3.2 20020903 (Red Hat Linux 8.0 3.2-7))
> Working Offsite: Linux version 2.4.20-18.7
> (bhcompile at stripples.devel.redhat.com) (gcc version 2.96 20000731 (Red Hat
> Linux 7.3 2.96-113))
> Problem Offsite: Linux version 2.4.20-18.9
> (bhcompile at porky.devel.redhat.com) (gcc version 3.2.2 20030222 (Red Hat
> Linux 3.2.2-5))
> 
> Here is a copy of the script that I'm running.
> 
> /usr/local/bin/rsync -avz  --stats --progress
> rsync://backup@athena.pa-ucl.com:873:/mercybackupstwo/dslagel
> /unmirror/mercy
> 
> I am looking for pointer in the rights direction. I can't seem to find any
> more specific info on these errors out there.

This looks a great deal like a dropped session of the sort
one would see over a firewall or VPN.

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