Rsync killed my server

[Jason Ferguson]

Perhaps I should turn logging back on and wait for the error to start again and then post the output.

-----Original Message-----
From: Kevin Alexander Boyd [mailto:kboyd at umich.edu]
Sent: Monday, March 22, 2004 5:58 AM
To: Jason Ferguson
Cc: rsync at lists.samba.org
Subject: Re: Rsync killed my server


What message was sent to the log?

If you are using a version of rsync that uses the '--eahfs' flag, then it
should not matter if files are moved or removed during a sync.

Kevin Boyd
OS X Deployment Coordinator
Sys Adm UMIT Contract Services


On Mon, 22 Mar 2004, Jason Ferguson wrote:

> Date: Mon, 22 Mar 2004 05:49:56 -0000
> From: Jason Ferguson <Jason.Ferguson at glasgow.newsquest.co.uk>
> To: rsync at lists.samba.org
> Subject: Rsync killed my server
>
>
> 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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