On Fri, Dec 07, 2001 at 03:16:17PM -0600, Chao,Eisen R.
wrote:> Hi All:
>
> I am going thru the documentation and I noticed that there is some talk
> about
> returning error codes. Some Q:s
>
> * If rsync encounters a network error, does it do retries ?
> Can you control the # of retries ?
No, rsync doesn't do any retries itself. It relies on TCP to provide
it with a reliable pipe.
> * Do the rsync client & server stop running upon encountering an error
?
> Can you tell rsync to stop upon the first error encountered ?
They will stop after the first error returned from TCP.
> * If the remote rsync encounters an error that is local, say a disk I/O
> error,
> does this error get eventually sent back to the client ? If so, can you
> encapsulate rsync inside of a shell script to react different ways
> depending
> upon the returned result code from the remote copy of rsync ?
I'm not too sure about that, I think people have complained that it
isn't
very good at passing error codes back.
- Dave Dykstra