Copying TBs -> error -> work around

[Roland]

 >with rsync hanging - after breakout on /home for writing I then get:
 >"Read-only file system"

if your filesystem switches to read-only, you have a serious problem
with your system/storage, not with rsync.

rsync (or the workload) is simply triggering the problem.

regards
roland


Am 10.09.20 um 07:30 schrieb Philip Rhoades via rsync:
> People,
>
> When I did:
>
>   rsync -av /home/ /mntb5/  # about 4TB
>
> I got errors like:
>
>   'rsync [sender] expand file_list pointer array to xxx bytes, "did
> move"'
>
> with rsync hanging - after breakout on /home for writing I then get:
>
>   "Read-only file system"
>
> So after unmounting and remounting /home I did:
>
>   cd /home
>   find /home/ -type d | sort > ./home_dirs_sorted.txt
>
> delete first line "/home/" of ./home_dirs_sorted.txt then:
>
>   while read dir ; do echo $dir ; rsync -lptgod "$dir" /mntb5/"$dir" ;
> done < ./home_dirs_sorted.txt
>
> and:
>
>   while read dir ; do echo $dir ; rsync -lptgoD "$dir"/\.[a-zA-Z0-9]*
> /mntb5/"$dir"/ ; done < ./home_dirs_sorted.txt
>
> and finally with no problems:
>
>   rsync -av --exclude-from=/usr/local/bin/nfb_caches.txt /home/ /mntb5/
>
> If there was a more sensible / efficient way of getting this done I
> would like to know about it!
>
> Thanks,
>
> Phil.
>