Problems with rsync, large files and partial.

[Panos Koutsoyannis]

Just changed by scripts and that was definately my
problem.... and its fixed.

Thank you

panos


--- Panos Koutsoyannis <groovetronix at yahoo.com> wrote:

> Ah...That make sense.  I do  not stop it politely ..
> you are right.  I will fix up the signal handling
> and
> give it whirl.
> 
> Thanks
> 
> Panos
> 
> 
> --- Paul Slootman <paul at debian.org> wrote:
> 
> > On Mon 24 Apr 2006, Panos Koutsoyannis wrote:
> > > 
> > > - I use rsync over ssh to sync over our wan.
> > > - I sync over an 8 hour window every night.
> > > - After 8 hours if the sync is not complete, it
> > gets
> > > killed and restarts the next evening.
> > 
> > How do you kill it? Via kill -9?
> > 
> > > - I do notice a bunch .file_name.gibberish in
> the
> > > target  directory which is the partial backup,
> but
> > it
> > > does not seem to use them in subsequent tries.
> > > 
> > > 
> > > It just seems the right thing to do would be for
> > the
> > > rsync to continue where it left off the night
> > before,
> > > but it doesn't.
> > > 
> > > - Here is my command
> > > rsync --archive --verbose --progress -partial
> > --stats
> > > -e ssh xxx.xxx.xxx:/dir
> > 
> > With --partial it should rename the
> > .file_name.gibberish file to
> > file_name when interrupted, so that it can resume
> > using the partial file
> > as a start (which it won't do with
> > .file_name.gibberish).
> > That's why I suspect you're not stopping rsync
> > "politely"...
> > 
> > 
> > Paul Slootman
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