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Re: [BackupPC-users] Problems rsyncing WinXP

2011-06-14 11:44:02
Subject: Re: [BackupPC-users] Problems rsyncing WinXP
From: Daniel Spannbauer <ds AT marco DOT de>
To: backuppc-users AT lists.sourceforge DOT net
Date: Tue, 14 Jun 2011 17:41:55 +0200
>>>
>>> I can tell you what I encountered, and speculate that you may be
>>> experiencing something similar:
>>>
>>> Some antivirus programs are protective of attempts to read their files
>>> or
>>> directories, and respond by either killing the process or suspending its
>>> ability to read files (neither of which rsync reacts well to.)
>>>
>>> There are a few other things that can confuse and abort rsync:
>>> - not using vshadow/locked files -- in most cases, this is just an
>>> error,
>>> but in some corner cases, it seems that rsync will abort.  I'm not sure
>>> what the pattern is.
>>> - antivirus and related programs either protect the filesystem or the
>>> port
>>> from rsync, interpreting it as an attack (Norton and McAffee in
>>> particular, but the behavior is by no means restricted to these two.)
>>> In
>>> many cases, the port and binary can be placed into an exception list.
>>> - rsync may encounter a filename or directory structure that it is not
>>> able to deal with:  for example, a link loop, a particularly long
>>> filename, or one containing characters it's not equipped to handle.
>>> Some
>>> of these are solvable using different options when compiling rsync.
>>>
>>
>> Hm,
>>
>> I've tested it for 5 minutes with the "normal" rsnc of my distribution....
>> The Rsync did not stop, I only get the message
>>
>> sent 646598 bytes  received 15201260820 bytes  8223915.29 bytes/sec
>> total size is 19531542623  speedup is 1.28
>> rsync error: some files could not be transferred (code 23) at
>> main.c(1310) [generator=2.6.8]
>>
>> at the end of the process.
>> So I think the rsyncd on the Windows-host is not the problem.
>>
>> Regards
>>
>> Daniel
>
> If the problem is something I listed, 5 minutes is unlikely to be
> sufficient to reproduce.
>
> Also, it's worth looking at the detailed log to see what file(s) it's
> attempting when it aborts.

Hello,

now you can find a log with LogLevel 2 here: 
http://nopaste.info/f99372a687.html

Regards

Daniel





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