Problems while transferring big files

Boniforti Flavio flavio at piramide.ch
Mon Mar 9 09:34:26 GMT 2009


> That is just the error code and its interpretation.  What 
> error message comes prior to that?

This is the whole log:

/usr/bin/rsync -rtzv --port=8873 --delete --ignore-errors --numeric-ids
\
    --delete-excluded --stats --progress localhost::Carlo/ \
    /mnt/remote/Customer/daily.0/Carlo/
receiving incremental file list
Architettura/
Architettura/Shot.avi
   236093440  32%   25.73kB/s    5:20:01  /usr/bin/logger -i -p user.err
-t rsnapshot /usr/bin/rsnapshot -c \
    /root/Customer.conf daily: ERROR: /usr/bin/rsync returned 12 while \
    processing localhost::Carlo/
/usr/bin/rsync -rtzv --port=8873 --delete --ignore-errors --numeric-ids
\
    --delete-excluded --stats --progress localhost::Data/ \
    /mnt/remote/Customer/daily.0/Data/
/usr/bin/logger -i -p user.err -t rsnapshot /usr/bin/rsnapshot -c \
    /root/Customer.conf daily: ERROR: /usr/bin/rsync returned 10 while \
    processing localhost::Data/
/usr/bin/rsync -rtzv --port=8873 --delete --ignore-errors --numeric-ids
\
    --delete-excluded --stats --progress localhost::Ufficio/ \
    /mnt/remote/Customer/daily.0/Ufficio/
/usr/bin/logger -i -p user.err -t rsnapshot /usr/bin/rsnapshot -c \
    /root/Customer.conf daily: ERROR: /usr/bin/rsync returned 10 while \
    processing localhost::Ufficio/
/usr/bin/rsync -rtzv --port=8873 --delete --ignore-errors --numeric-ids
\
    --delete-excluded --stats --progress localhost::Waliha/ \
    /mnt/remote/Customer/daily.0/Waliha/
/usr/bin/logger -i -p user.err -t rsnapshot /usr/bin/rsnapshot -c \
    /root/Customer.conf daily: ERROR: /usr/bin/rsync returned 10 while \
    processing localhost::Waliha/
/usr/bin/rsync -rtzv --port=8873 --delete --ignore-errors --numeric-ids
\
    --delete-excluded --stats --progress localhost::ExchBkp/ \
    /mnt/remote/Customer/daily.0/ExchBkp/
/usr/bin/logger -i -p user.err -t rsnapshot /usr/bin/rsnapshot -c \
    /root/Customer.conf daily: ERROR: /usr/bin/rsync returned 10 while \
    processing localhost::ExchBkp/
touch /mnt/remote/Customer/daily.0/
rm -f /var/run/Customer.pid
/usr/bin/logger -i -p user.err -t rsnapshot /usr/bin/rsnapshot -c \
    /root/Customer.conf daily: ERROR: /usr/bin/rsnapshot -c \
    /root/Customer.conf daily: completed, but with some errors

> We hypothesize that there can be an accidental match in the 
> checksum data, which would cause the two sides to put 
> different streams of data into their gzip compression 
> algorithm, and eventually get out of sync and blow up.  If 

Don't understand what you mean, could you please explain?

> you have a repeatable case of a new file overwriting an 
> existing file that always fails, and if you can share the 
> files, make them available somehow (e.g. put them on a web 
> server) and send the list (or me) an email on how to grab 
> them, and we can run some tests.

Well, in *this* specific case the file I was syncing was totally new, it
therefore didn't already exist on the receivers' side...

> If the above is the cause of the error, running without -z 
> should indeed avoid the issue.

I could be trying without "-z", but on this specific server I have quite
a bad internet connection...


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