Through several versions up to and including the current 3.0.9 I experience sporadic, repeating (but not predictably) errors of this form:> rsync: make_bak_dir mkdir "/REPO/backup/XXXX-data1-20120727-040453" failed: File exists (17) > rsync: keep_backup failed: "/REPO/backup/XXXX-data1/data1/A182/tb5178/tb5178.hebb/out.TENT_warn.txt" -> "/REPO/backup/XXXX-data1-20120727-040453/data1/A182/tb5178/tb5178.hebb/out.TENT_warn.txt": No such file or directory (2) > rsync: stat "/REPO/backup/XXXX-data1-20120727-040453/data1/A182/tb5178/tb5178.hebb/out.TENT_warn.txt" failed: No such file or directory (2) > rsync error: some files/attrs were not transferred (see previous errors) (code 23) at main.c(1518) [generator=3.0.9]About 20 of the last 2000 total nightly back up jobs have failed, almost all of them with this kind of error. They never reoccur when I rerun the job. The files/directories involved appear to be random. Is there anything I can do? Richard Crane ------- Haskins Laboratories / (203) 865-6163 X 275 / FAX (203) 865-8963 300 George Street/New Haven, CT 06511 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.samba.org/pipermail/rsync/attachments/20120810/ca5b377d/attachment.html>
On Fri, Aug 10, 2012 at 1:14 PM, Richard Crane < Richard.Crane at haskins.yale.edu> wrote:> Through several versions up to and including the current 3.0.9 I > experience sporadic, repeating (but not predictably) errors of this form: > [... backup errors ...] > Is there anything I can do? >The backup code in 3.1.0dev is much improved from the 3.0.x idiom. It both strives to ensure that any colliding elements are fixed (e.g. dir/symlink changes from prior runs) and that the backing up is done more atomically. I'd recommend giving it a try. ..wayne.. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.samba.org/pipermail/rsync/attachments/20120812/8d6735f4/attachment.html>