JW (j...@mailsw.com) wrote on 3 June 2009 11:58: >A nightly scripted rsync backup job is giving me this error > >WARNING: vm/escDebLenny14G-flat.vmdk failed verification -- update discarded >(will try again). > >I've searched the web and I think probably the problem is the source file >changed during the copy. > >However, I haven't seen any explanations for the "will try again" part. > >Does it try again immediately? > >If so, does a lack of further errors mean that it succeeded on the retry?
After pulling a file rsync verifies its checksum; if it fails rsync tries once more, and if it still fails rsync gives up and reports the error. Therefore if there is no final error message the file was successfully pulled. This is explained in http://rsync.samba.org/how-rsync-works.html -- Please use reply-all for most replies to avoid omitting the mailing list. To unsubscribe or change options: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/rsync Before posting, read: http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html
