WARNING: <file> failed verification -- update discarded (will try again).

Joe Peterson joe at skyrush.com
Wed Dec 7 18:38:25 GMT 2005


I've been using rsync for a long time, and it's very cool.  For the
first time, last night, I got a message I don't understand.  I am using
rsync 2.6.4 on Fedora (FC4) Linux to a Fedora (FC3) Linux machine.  The
command I am using is:

rsync -av --delete-excluded --exclude="*~" --exclude="#*#" <source dir>
remove_machine:<dest dir>

I got the following as part of the output of rsync:

jukebox/Frank_Sinatra/
jukebox/Frank_Sinatra/The_Main_Event/
jukebox/Frank_Sinatra/The_Main_Event/01-Tribute.flac
jukebox/Frank_Sinatra/The_Main_Event/02-The_Lady_Is_A_Tramp.flac
jukebox/Frank_Sinatra/The_Main_Event/03-I_Get_A_Kick_Out_Of_You.flac
jukebox/Frank_Sinatra/The_Main_Event/04-Let_Me_Try_Again.flac
jukebox/Frank_Sinatra/The_Main_Event/05-Autumn_In_New_York.flac
jukebox/Frank_Sinatra/The_Main_Event/06-Ive_Got_You_Under_My_Skin.flac
jukebox/Frank_Sinatra/The_Main_Event/07-Bad_Bad_Leroy_Brown.flac
jukebox/Frank_Sinatra/The_Main_Event/08-Angel_Eyes.flac
jukebox/Frank_Sinatra/The_Main_Event/09-You_Are_The_Sunshine_Of_My_Life.flac
jukebox/Frank_Sinatra/The_Main_Event/10-The_House_I_Live_In.flac
jukebox/Frank_Sinatra/The_Main_Event/11-My_Kind_Of_Town.flac
WARNING: jukebox/Frank_Sinatra/The_Main_Event/04-Let_Me_Try_Again.flac
failed verification -- update discarded (will try again).
jukebox/Frank_Sinatra/The_Main_Event/12-My_Way.flac

What does the "WARNING" imply?  What could have gone wrong?  I cannot
reproduce it.  When I did another sync immediately after, only the
directory was in the file list, and then I checked the file in question,
and it matched the source.

I saw mention of a similar error in an older version when using "-z",
but I am not using that.

					Thanks, Joe


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