-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 rsync v3.0.7 (also seen with 3.0.5) linux 2.6.34-12-desktop x86_64 os/2 v4.50 fp3 rsync makes an unusual error when building its file list for a transfer: it decided to move a directory further down the directory tree than where it was located in the source volume. Even more strange is that during the next run of rsync, it adjusts the *source* volume to match the *target* volume. As you may imagine, this is rather disturbing to users who expect their directories to stay where they put them. I can definitively blame rsync for this bizarre behavior. Nothing like it ever occurred before I started using rsync for backup. And the log file demonstrates it. - ----[ Incorrect file transfer ]---- 2010/08/26 04:33:01 [18928] building file list etc... 2010/08/26 04:34:23 [18928] cd+++++++++ wpdocs/daily/ethics_b.ook/ 2010/08/26 04:34:23 [18928] <f+++++++++ wpdocs/daily/ethics_b.ook/DESRCIBE.WEB etc... - ----[ It should have been ]---- 2010/08/26 04:34:23 [18928] cd+++++++++ wpdocs/ethics_b.ook/ 2010/08/26 04:34:23 [18928] <f+++++++++ wpdocs/ethics_b.ook/DESRCIBE.WEB etc... This does not happen every time, i.e., the highly annoying intermittent problem. It occurs once every 5 - 10 backups. I originally saw this on an os/2 server and assumed that it was a peculiarity of the rsync port; it would regularly misplace certain directories (rsync has its preferences I guess). But now this has happened on a linux system. Command line (wrapped for clarity): rsync --archive --stats --compress --delete \ --prune-empty-dirs --omit-dir-times \ --log-file=~/logs/rsync-bkp.log \ /t/ rsync://sma-nas-01/pub-data/ </t> is a CIFS mounted volume. <rsync://sma-nas-01> is a RAID5 NAS volume running an rsync daemon. When this problem occurred on an os/2 server, the source volume was a native JFS drive, and the target was the CIFS-mounted NAS volume (before I enabled the daemon on the NAS device). - -- James Moe moe dot james at sohnen-moe dot com 520.743.3936 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.15 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iEYEARECAAYFAkx56bAACgkQzTcr8Prq0ZM12wCgsr8jfI1JghYLiXiidvK9qsEI ceAAn2awXAUPYHnk5+v2eGgUgOEl6LQC =QHfl -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----