rsync - Apr 2008 - rsync error: some files could not be transferred -- How to ignore

Hi Wayne,

I read your thread online at
http://lists.samba.org/archive/rsync/2005-June/012847.html
  and I am having a similar problem.

In my case, rsync displays the error code "rsync error: some files  
could not be transferred (code 23)" and it kills my script. Do you  
have any advice on how would I go about writing, researching etc. a  
script to tell rsync to ignore such errors?

I am using the bash shell in Mac OS 10.5.2. Any help would be much  
appreciated.

Many thanks,
Ken

On Apr 8, 2008, at 11:27 PM, Kenneth Seal <hunzinker@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi Wayne,
>
> I read your thread online at
http://lists.samba.org/archive/rsync/2005-June/012847.html
>  and I am having a similar problem.
>
> In my case, rsync displays the error code "rsync error: some files  
> could not be transferred (code 23)" and it kills my script. Do you  
> have any advice on how would I go about writing, researching etc. a  
> script to tell rsync to ignore such errors?
>
> I am using the bash shell in Mac OS 10.5.2. Any help would be much  
> appreciated.
>
> Many thanks,
> Ken
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The result code of a command is stored in a special variable named $?

Check the value of that variable in an if statement immediately after  
the rsync line in your script

If the value is 0 then there were no errors.  If the value is 23, then  
you could log a warning or not. If there is any other value in $? ,  
then you have another problem.

If we could see the relevant lines of your script we might be able to  
provide more help.

Also you control whether your script succeeds or fails based on the  
last line in your script.

If you want it to succeed, the last line would be

exit 0

Google for advanced bash scripting guide for more info.

Kyle

On Tue, 2008-04-08 at 21:27 -0600, Kenneth Seal wrote:
> In my case, rsync displays the error code "rsync error: some files  
> could not be transferred (code 23)" and it kills my script. Do you  
> have any advice on how would I go about writing, researching etc. a  
> script to tell rsync to ignore such errors?
If I were you, I would try to fix the code 23 instead of ignoring it!
Rsync exits with code 23 when at least one non-fatal error occurs that
may affect the correctness of the transfer.  Perhaps the errors
currently causing the code 23 are unimportant, but if you ignore code
23, you risk missing more important errors in the future (e.g., the
nonexistence of a source argument).

Look for the specific error messages in the output that are causing the
code 23.  If it isn't immediately obvious how to fix them, post them to
the list and I'll take a look.  Or if you don't care about copying the
offending files, you can --exclude them.

Matt
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