Dear Gluster, I'm running Gluster 3.3 on a four host setup. (Two bricks per host.) I'm attempting to use this as an rsnapshot backup system. Periodically, the rsync's seem to fail, and I think this is due to underlying gluster failures. I notice this in /var/log/messages: # Jul 19 23:47:15 annex1 GlusterFS[26815]: [2012-07-19 23:47:15.424909] C [client-handshake.c:126:rpc_client_ping _timer_expired] 0-gbackups-client-2: server 172.16.1.83:24009 has not responded in the last 42 seconds, disconnecting. I notice that df shows a smaller than normal volume size, which returns to normal after a remount. $ df -h 172.16.1.80:/gbackups 55T 1.6T 54T 3% /mnt/gbackups $ umount /mnt/gbackups $ df -h 172.16.1.80:/gbackups 73T 1.9T 71T 3% /mnt/gbackups One rsnapshot error that I get is: # [19/Jul/2012:23:50:01] /usr/bin/rsnapshot -c /etc/rsnapshot/rsnapshot-sftp/rsnapshot.conf sync: ERROR: /bin/cp -al /mnt/gbackups/rsnapshot/sftp/daily.0 /mnt/gbackups/rsnapshot/sftp/.sync failed (result 256, exit status 1). Perhaps your cp does not support -al options? I've manually tested the cp -al and it's working fine. It's most likely due to a node that's dropping out temporarily. Doing a gluster peer status shows all nodes "connected". Any ideas what is causing this please? Thanks in advance, James -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 836 bytes Desc: This is a digitally signed message part URL: <http://supercolony.gluster.org/pipermail/gluster-users/attachments/20120720/3988e210/attachment.sig>