I found the reason I think anyway.
It was the different versions of rsync on the 2 machines.
I upgraded the one on the AIX machine and then it copied just fine.
Thank you jw and Michael for answering.
Boris
-----Original Message-----
From: Michael Salmon [mailto:Michael.Salmon@uab.ericsson.se]
Sent: 23. januar 2003 13:45
To: rsync@lists.samba.org
Subject: RE: Error message
On Thursday, January 23, 2003 12:36:52 PM +0100 Boris Gegenheimer
<Boris.Gegenheimer@ergo.no> wrote:
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| The versions of the different machines I use are the initiating
| machine : Sun 450 Solaris 8
| Rsync 2.5.5
|
| The machine that I try to copy from :
| IBM rs6000
| AIX 4.3
| Rsync 2.3.1
|
| The command I use is
| /usr/local/bin/rsync -au -q --stats --progress
| --rsync-path=/usr/local/bin/rsync maximus:/ptsfs2
| /diskbackup/kanal1/maximus/
|
| The error message comes when he tries to copy that file mentioned
| below which is 14GB big it is not the filesystem or the name of the
| file because it worked with ncftpget. But that program has other
| problems that I will not mention here.
[...]
| On Thu, Jan 23, 2003 at 10:55:32AM +0100, Boris Gegenheimer wrote:
| > Hello when i get this message what is wrong:
| >
| > /PTS.0.db2inst1.NODE0000.CATN0000.20030123062324.001: Value too
| > large to be stored in data type
| >
| > Regards Boris
[...]
+-----X8
I have also seen that message with times before 1970. This is the standard
text for EOVERFLOW.
/Michael
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