I am not sure where to begin so I will be as verbose as I can to explain the problem.
I have 3 servers. Their specs are: Machine A: Redhat 7.1 kernel 2.4.9-34 openssh 3.1p1-5 Machine B: Redhat 7.3 kernel 2.4.9-31 openssh 3.1p1-5 Machine C: Debian Woody kernel 2.4.18-bf2.4 openssh 3.4p1 rsync 2.5.6 I am running an rsync over ssh from Machine C to Machine B with the following: rsync --verbose --progress --stats --compress --rsh=/usr/bin/"slogin -l root -o Compression=yes" --recursive --times --links --perms --owner --group machineB.com:/etc /backup/machineB.com/etc This works flawlessly. When I run an rsync over ssh from Machine C to Machine A with the following: rsync --verbose --progress --stats --compress --rsh=/usr/bin/"slogin -l root -o Compression=yes" --recursive --times --links --perms --owner --group machineA.com:/etc /backup/machineA.com/etc The following occurs: All directories on Machine A /etc are replicated on Machine C /backup.../etc, however when the process starts to transfer files from Machine A, I get: receiving file list ... 650 files to consider etc/ etc/.pwd.lock 30888880 0% 8.82MB/s 538:49:00 Looks pretty normal, except the fact that /etc/.pwd.lock is a 0 size file... So I am not sure where it is getting all that data from. This occurs with any directory I specify, same result. I have looked both installs... and I really can't seem to find out why one works and the other does not. I started looking at the file systems... and Machine A is ext2 Machine B is ext3 and Machine C is also ext3, but I can't see how that would matter... I am just grasping for straws here. Does anybody see why it works with one machine but not another? Any guidance is appreciated. Tom Walsh Network Administrator http://www.ala.net/ -- To unsubscribe or change options: http://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/rsync Before posting, read: http://www.tuxedo.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html