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2011 Aug 01
1
--timeout=... lesson learned...
...arned and thought it maybe
should be added to the man-pages.
I thought my network connection was glitchy and hence set rsync up for
--timeout=120 but I found out that I was actually causing the glitch with
this script:
#! /bin/sh -
while true; do rsync -avz --progress --timeout=120 --delete
/media/rsync_gb01/movies/ myserver:movies; sleep 120; done
The problem:
When rsync is checking large files it takes time to verify the content at
both ends, so when using the option --timeout=TIME both source and
destination must be capable of performing the check within the time window
provided. For a 2.3 Gb file...
2011 Jul 13
0
How to call rsync client so that is detects that server has gone away?
...in/env python
#wraps up rsync to synchronize two directories
# ! -- should contain check of disk space using rsync -n option for drytest !
from subprocess import call
import sys
import time
"""this motivated rsync tries to synchronise forever"""
source = "/media/rsync_gb01/movies/" #note the trailing slash!
target = "bjorn at srv01:/home/bjorn/movies"
rsync = "rsync"
arguments = "-avz --timeout=60 --delete"
cmd = "%s %s %s %s" % (rsync, arguments, source, target)
def sync():
while True:
ret = call(cmd, shell=True)
if...