rsync - May 2005 - how to abort when can't write to the destination?

Dear Rsyncers,

I'm trying to maintain a mirror of Ubuntu distribution and I had a cron
job which rsynced it every night. The problem came after last reboot a
few days ago -- destination directory wasn't mounted, thus wasn't
accessible by rsync for writing:

rsync: failed to set times on "/share/ubumirror/.": Operation not
permitted (1)
rsync: recv_generator: mkdir "/share/ubumirror/dists" failed:
Permission denied (13)
rsync: stat "/share/ubumirror/dists" failed: No such file or directory
(2)
rsync: recv_generator: mkdir "/share/ubumirror/dists/breezy" failed:
No such file or directory (2)
rsync: stat "/share/ubumirror/dists/breezy" failed: No such file or
directory (2)
rsync: recv_generator: mkdir "/share/ubumirror/dists/breezy-security"
failed: No such file or directory (2)

but it kept causing all the traffic to occur and because local files
weren't present it happened to cause the transfer of a while ubuntu
mirror every night for the last few days.

I man-ed rsync but couldn't find an option which would exit rsync if any
error occurred on the way (like IO problem with destination or smth like
that)

What would be a proper way for me to set it up? (Besides piping stderr
to a process which would kill rsync if gets anything)

Please CC me - I'm not on the list

Thank you in advance for ideas!

-- 
Yaroslav Halchenko
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On Mon, May 09, 2005 at 12:07:39PM -0400, Yaroslav Halchenko
wrote:
> I man-ed rsync but couldn't find an option which would exit rsync if
> any error occurred on the way (like IO problem with destination or
> smth like that)
That's not currently supported, but this is an area that needs to be
improved in the future.  You could try running a probing rsync that only
copies one file/dir, and if it doesn't succeed, skip doing the full
update.

..wayne..