old files not getting deleted

[Tim Boyer]

On 2/18/2010 3:36 PM, Charles Sprickman wrote:

<snip>

>
> I see that at the very end of the logfile:
>
> 2010/02/14 01:41:46 [79743] IO error encountered -- skipping file deletion
>
> There are always a few errors, like "file disappeared" and the like
> since this is a live system (and mailboxes no less, where content is
> always changing).
>
> A few examples:
>
> 2010/02/16 01:24:20 [87560] rsync:
> readlink_stat("/spool/jails/mailbak.example.net/home/vpopmail/domains/example.net/A/spec/Maildir/new/1248843513.66447.example.net")
> failed: Bad file descriptor (9)
> 2010/02/16 01:24:20 [87560] rsync:
> readlink_stat("/spool/jails/mailbak.example.net/home/vpopmail/domains/example.net/A/spec/Maildir/new/1183175697.M407633P83781V00020D07I00573A16_0.example.net,S=19682")
> failed: Bad file descriptor (9)
>
> 2010/02/17 01:23:36 [91479] rsync: opendir
> "/spool/jails/mailbak.example.net/dev/fd/3" failed: Bad file descriptor (9)
>
> Can I turn this behavior off?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Charles
>

man rsync:

  --ignore-errors         delete even if there are I/O errors


-- tim --