On Wed, Apr 21, 2010 at 01:24:09PM -0500, Les Mikesell wrote:
> >
> > If I completely delete the file on the client side, it is restored
> > correctly (that is to say, without rsync hanging). The next restore will
> > again hang on the same file.
> 
> Out of disk space?  Rsync is annoyingly quite about this reason for 
> failure and will keep trying.
> 
> > So, here's a summary:
> > - I had successfully restored a directory of about 8 Gb of files
> > - I tried to restore it again later (after losing a few files due
> >    to an ill considered rm)
> > - the subsequent restore failed, with rsync hanging indefinitely
> >    on some files
> > - removing all files over 67413186 bytes in size made the restore work
> >    (although I suspect the magic value is probably 64 Mb or something)
> 
> Maybe you just made enough space for the temp copy that rsync builds 
> during the restore.
> 

That's an interesting theory (I knew about rsync temp file, but I didn't
know it was quiet about missing disk space). Alas, the target system 
has 122 Gb of free space, so it's something different.

I've started to restore another portion of the home dirs, after removing
the 3 files over 64 Mb. We'll see if that one finishes without problem.

-- 
 Philippe Bruhat (BooK)

 It matters not how grand your plans when they are built on a faulty
 foundation.                        (Moral from Groo The Wanderer #19 (Epic))

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