rsync - Jul 2008 - IO error encountered -- skipping file deletion

Hi guys,

Wondering how i can trace to the problem....im backing up many servers 
and on all of them im seeing this error.

Im backing up between centos machines

Thanx in advance!

On Fri, Jul 25, 2008 at 03:37:52PM -0300, Manuel Kissoyan
wrote:
> Wondering how i can trace to the problem....im backing up many servers
> and on all of them im seeing this error.
Look at the stderr output for earlier errors that were output.  Things
like lack of permissions opening a directory on the source side, a disk
I/O error, etc.

..wayne..

Thanx Wayne!

Im not finding any useful info....this is the only thing that did show:

rsync: link_stat "/etc/domainalias" failed: No such file or directory
(2)
rsync: link_stat "/etc/ips.remotedns" failed: No such file or
directory (2)
rsync: link_stat "/etc/master.passwd" failed: No such file or
directory (2)
rsync: link_stat "/etc/namedb/named.conf" failed: No such file or 
directory (2)
rsync: link_stat "/usr/local/apache/conf/userdata" failed: No such
file
or directory (2)
rsync: link_stat "/var/lib/named/chroot/var/named/master" failed: No 
such file or directory (2)
rsync: link_stat "/var/ssl" failed: No such file or directory (2)
IO error encountered -- skipping file deletion


A drive error ...it couldnt be, im having the same i/o error on 5 
different servers backups.

Thanx in advance!






Wayne Davison wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 25, 2008 at 03:37:52PM -0300, Manuel Kissoyan wrote:
>   
>> Wondering how i can trace to the problem....im backing up many servers
>> and on all of them im seeing this error.
>>     
>
> Look at the stderr output for earlier errors that were output.  Things
> like lack of permissions opening a directory on the source side, a disk
> I/O error, etc.
>
> ..wayne..
>
>

Manuel, please remember to CC rsync@lists.samba.org .

On Sat, 2008-07-26 at 16:22 -0300, Manuel Kissoyan
wrote:
> Thanx....yes, i have some files that are available in some servers and 
> are not in others......i was reading the filters rules, i havent used it 
> before and looks a bit confusing....
> I only want pass a list to excluded dirs/files and included dirs/files 
> to rsync and it also delete the dirs/files in the receiving side that do 
> not exist anymore in the sending side.
You may find the "support/files-to-excludes" script that comes with
rsync helpful.  My RPM installs it under /usr/share/doc/rsync-3.0.3 .

Matt
> Matt McCutchen wrote:
> > On Sat, 2008-07-26 at 13:06 -0300, Manuel Kissoyan wrote:
> >   
> >> Im not finding any useful info....this is the only thing that did
show:
> >>
> >> rsync: link_stat "/etc/domainalias" failed: No such file
or directory (2)
> >> rsync: link_stat "/etc/ips.remotedns" failed: No such
file or directory (2)
> >> rsync: link_stat "/etc/master.passwd" failed: No such
file or directory (2)
> >> rsync: link_stat "/etc/namedb/named.conf" failed: No
such file or
> >> directory (2)
> >> rsync: link_stat "/usr/local/apache/conf/userdata"
failed: No such file
> >> or directory (2)
> >> rsync: link_stat
"/var/lib/named/chroot/var/named/master" failed: No
> >> such file or directory (2)
> >> rsync: link_stat "/var/ssl" failed: No such file or
directory (2)
> >> IO error encountered -- skipping file deletion
> >>     
> >
> > The "link_stat" errors do cause rsync to skip deletion, so
you'll need
> > to remedy them.  Are you using a --files-from list that contains
> > nonexistent files?  If so, remove the files from the list or, if you
> > want to use the same list on other machines that do have the files,
use
> > filters instead of --files-from.  If that isn't the problem,
please
> > provide your rsync command line and any --files-from or filter files
you
> > are using so I can try to figure out what is going on.
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