Rsync killed my server

[Jim Salter]

"Threw a mental" is extremely unhelpful.  What was it writing to the 
logfile?




Jason Ferguson wrote:

> I have the following as a line in a script kicked off from cron:
> 
> sudo rsync -e ssh -avz /Times_QPS/ 192.168.22.72:/Times_QPS/ --eahfs
> 
> It logs the output to a log file, however rsync caused the log file to go to an 80gb file and fill up my disk because it threw a mental when a file it went to sync was no longer there!
> 
> Is there some way to get the sync to ignore errors?
> 
> 
> -Jason
> 
> 
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