rsync - Apr 2003 - File size limitations?

Hi

I'm running rsync 2.5.6 protocol version 26 on solaris 8.

I have a local software RAID array, plus a mounted netapp fileserver, and am
looking to replicate the contents of the netapp mount on the RAID array.

I run a cronjob each night, with lines like :-

/usr/local/sbin/rsync -ar /netapp/all/projects /backup/vol0/  >>
/tmp/rsync_log.txt 2>&1

Looking at the log files, I get warnings :-

delete_file: rmdir(projects/src/PDF/ExtractText/lib/AIX) : File exists
rsync: symlink "projects/src/PDF/ExtractText/lib/AIX" ->
"aix": File exists

(which I believe the --delete option will fix)

But I also get messages like :-

readlink staff/ex_staff/mickie_mouse.tar.Z: Value too large for defined data
type
>From a command prompt, I am able to cp mickie_mouse.tar.Z (on the mounted
netapp) to the local RAID array, and indeed rsync seems to have copied the
file successfully as well.

Anyone have any clues whether this is a faulty error message, or if there is
actually something going wrong which I may not have spotted yet?

Many thanks

Nigel Barker

On Thu, Apr 10, 2003 at 01:46:55PM +0100, Nigel Barker
wrote:
> Hi
> 
> I'm running rsync 2.5.6 protocol version 26 on solaris 8.
> 
> I have a local software RAID array, plus a mounted netapp fileserver, and
am
> looking to replicate the contents of the netapp mount on the RAID array.
[snip]
> readlink staff/ex_staff/mickie_mouse.tar.Z: Value too large for defined
data
> type
Old, known problem.  Sun mtime bug.

http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&threadm=ao1ehu%242bml%241%40FreeBSD.csie.NCTU.edu.tw&rnum=5&prev=/groups%3Fq%3D%2522value%2Btoo%2Blarge%2522%2Brsync%26hl%3Den%26lr%3D%26ie%3DUTF-8%26filter%3D0

or google groups for 'rsync "Value too large"'


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