Bump. I have still not found a solution for this. Do you have any ideas on how to debug it?
Thanks. Med venlig hilsen/Kind regards Thomas Damgaard Nielsen http://thomasdamgaard.dk On Tue, Apr 28, 2009 at 2:35 PM, Thomas Damgaard<thoma...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi > > I use rsync for daily backups from a mailserver. > > Every day the mailserver pushes backup to the backupserver. > Cron runs the command: > rsync -q -zrlpt --specials --chmod=Du+rwx \ > --rsh 'ssh -F /root/ssh/config -i /root/ssh/private.key -o > UserKnownHostsFile=/root/ssh/known_hosts' \ > --files-from=/root/include \ > --exclude-from=/root/exclude \ > --link-dest=../previous \ > / backupu...@backupserver:backup/current > > The rsync command is run as the root user on the mailserver. > > /root/include contains the line: > /data > > /root/exclude is empty at this moment. > > > The problem is that almost every day, I get an e-mail from cron saying > that rsync has failed. > It gives errors like these: > rsync: readlink > "/data/mail/virtual/xx-net.dk/martin/cur/1240839853.V11I228039M884633.mail:2,RS" > failed: Permission denied (13) > rsync: readlink > "/data/mail/virtual/xx-net.dk/martin/cur/1240830282.V11I228031M150189.mail:2,S" > failed: Permission denied (13) > rsync: readlink > "/data/mail/virtual/xx-net.dk/martin/cur/1240830490.V11I228036M432719.mail:2,S" > failed: Permission denied (13) > > I have checked that the files are ineed readable on the mailserver. > Here is ls -l from one of them: > -rw------- 1 mail mail 560383 2009-04-27 13:08 > /data/mail/virtual/xx-net.dk/martin/cur/1240830490.V11I228036M432719.mail:2,S > > > The files that gives the error is appearently changing randomly. One > day there can be one or two files with an error. Other times several > hundred. > I have seen it give errors on files in mail boxes that is currently > unused, so it cannot be because the file is currently used by some > other application (e.g. the imap server). > > I noticed that it is readlink that gives the error. I'm not sure why > readlink is used in this case. This is a regular file and not a > symlink. > > > I hope you have some suggestions on how to debug this further. > > > Details on the servers's file systems: > > Server backupserver: > /data is mounted like this: > nfs:/data/nfs/nfs0/data/xx/backup on /data type nfs > (rw,timeo=60,intr,rsize=16384,wsize=16384,addr=78.xx.xx.xx) > > > Server mailserver: > /data is mounted like this: > nfs:/data/nfs/nfs0/data/xx/mail on /data type nfs > (rw,timeo=60,intr,rsize=16384,wsize=16384,addr=78.xx.xx.xx) > > > Med venlig hilsen/Kind regards > Thomas Damgaard Nielsen > http://thomasdamgaard.dk > -- 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