Problems while transferring big files

[Boniforti Flavio]

> You are missing rsync's output to stderr.  There should be at 
> a minimum "rsync error: error in rsync protocol data stream 
> (code 12)", and probably a preceding error message that would 
> give us an idea of what the problem is.  Adjust your setup so 
> you can capture the stderr, or if all else fails, run the 
> rsync manually.

Sorry, this should be the piece of information missing:

Read from remote host remotehost.com: Connection timed out

rsync: connection unexpectedly closed (236230676 bytes received so far)
[receiver] rsync error: error in rsync protocol data stream (code 12) at
io.c(600) [receiver=3.0.5]
rsync: connection unexpectedly closed (488 bytes received so far)
[generator] rsync error: error in rsync protocol data stream (code 12)
at io.c(600) [generator=3.0.5]

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> > Well, in *this* specific case the file I was syncing was 
> totally new, 
> > it therefore didn't already exist on the receivers' side...
> 
> OK, then your problem is something other than the compression 
> false-match issue we were discussing.

OK, so how could we go on debugging?

Thanks again,
Flavio.