rsync - Mar 2005 - Strangeness with rsync

Hi all!

I've got a machine setup to be an "RSYNC Server", i.e. running
rsync in
daemon mode waiting for connections from various other machines on my
network.  This machine is running Debian Sarge and rsync 2.6.3.

For the past several days, I've been getting notices like this in my backup
logs:
===============================================================================file
has vanished:
"backup/archives/incoming/Augusta/1000-02/.cover-a.doc.3lL5YC" (in
backup)
===============================================================================
The file in question seems to be random from day to day.  Here's the odd
part, the file is there in both places (the source and the backup
locations).  And they are identical and fully functional!

I don't know what is going on, but I'm hoping someone can help me
decipher
this.

If it helps:

Command used by backup script:
rsync -a --stats --compress /source/file/path/
rsync.server::backup/backup/file/path/

Error captured from Standard Error stream:
rsync: connection unexpectedly closed (4 bytes received so far) [sender]
rsync error: error in rsync protocol data stream (code 12) at io.c(359)

Thanks in advance,
--
Kevin L. Collins, MCSE
Systems Manager
Nesbitt Engineering, Inc.

Like Keven, I am getting the same "file has vanished: <some randomly
chosen
blady-bla file name> (w/ or w/o the in backup)" message.  However,
unlike
Keven, sometimes the file is in the destination, and sometimes it isn't.

My setup is:

Source:
	Window XP Pro
	via a mounted Window's share

Destination:
	FC3 Linux
	rsync 2.6.3
	
Script:

   mount -o username=root,password='<the pw>' <windows pc +
share name>
<mount point>
   rsync -vazS --partial --no-blocking-io --timeout=300 --delete
--modify-window=2 \
      --exclude=this \
      --exclude=that \
      --exclude=and \
      --exclude=the \
      --exclude=other \
      --exclude=thing \
      <mount point> <destination path> > newBackup.log
   umount <mount point>

Thanks,
Clay Goss

Just to add to the confusion.  My situation is completely different.

The files in question are being synced from one Linux box to another -
although the files were actually created by Windows machines, through Samba.

It appears as though instead of it being random files, it's the same 18
files every night.

I'm wondering if it has anything to do with the file system.  I'm using
rsync in several other locations on EXT3 and everything is fine.  I'm
pushing this to a machine running on XFS.  Could that be the problem?

Kevin 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Clay Goss [mailto:ClayGoss@gosscomputerprojects.net] 
> Sent: Tuesday, March 08, 2005 10:01 AM
> To: rsync@lists.samba.org
> Subject: RE: Strangeness with rsync
> 
> Ok. I have done some experimenting with the ""file has 
> vanished:" problem.
> 
> The most recent file I had exhibiting this problem was named:
> 
> "University Student's Realty Associates Power Point.ppt"
> 
> It did not exist on the receiving side of the rsysc after the 
> run.  I manually created the mount to the windows PC share 
> and navigated to the file.  I could list it with "ls" but 
> could not "cat" it - got an error that "The file did not
exist."
> 
> Something possessed me to remove the "'" and rename the file
to:
> 
> "University Students Realty Associates Power Point.ppt"
> 
> It rsynced fine.
> 
> Just for giggles, I named it back to:
> 
> "University Student's Realty Associates Power Point.ppt"
> 
> It rsynced fine and now I can access it through the mount 
> from a shell terminal.  There are many files on the "source" 
> system with "'" in their name, so I know the problem is not 
> the using of the "'", but rather with how it is coded.
> 
> Perhaps, this is related to other posts concerning "8bit" vs. 
> "UTF8" vs.
> "iso8859-1" vs. etc. character coding.
> 
> Take care,
> Clay Goss
> 
> 
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