I have been trying to implement Mike's tutorial on backup with rsync, but my server has kept crashing in the middle of the rsync transfer.
I am backing up /dev/hda1 to /dev/hdc1 on a SuSe v 7.3 i386 box Server crashed 8 times. 16 fsck and 8 reboots later I finally got an error message and a graceful exit from rsync. Somewhere in the middle of the crashes I compiled and installed the 2.5.4 stable version. Here is the error dialog: building file list ... done var/log/httpd/ var/log/httpd/access.combined.8sep02.log var/log/httpd/access.combined.log var/log/httpd/error_log rsync: error writing 4 unbuffered bytes - exiting: Broken pipe rsync error: error in rsync protocol data stream (code 12) at io.c(464) rsync: error writing 70 unbuffered bytes - exiting: Broken pipe rsync error: error in rsync protocol data stream (code 12) at io.c(464) A search of Google Usenet showed two identical incidents in June 2002. Is there any hope of my resolving this without too many more crashes? Sincerely, Trevor http://www.TrevorMarshall.com -- To unsubscribe or change options: http://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/rsync Before posting, read: http://www.tuxedo.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html