Hello rsync folks I'm trying to use rsync for backing up our servers. This mostly works extremely well, with no problems.
However, 1 server is giving me a lot of trouble. It has a directory with (currently) 734088 files in it, and every time I try to backup this dir, rsync hangs after transferring roughly 2000 files. Sometimes it's around 1800, sometimes it's over 2100 (I think), but it's in that ballbark. If I exclude the large directory, rsync completes the backup successfully (albeit incompletely, of course). I'm running Debian Stable on both the client and server, fully updated. I thought maybe a Debian patch could be interfering, so I've tried vanilla 3.0.9 rsync straight from the tgz, but that gives the same problem. Things I've already tried: - Different MTU - Disabling/enabling compression in rsync (-z) - Using --protocol=29 - Other variations on arguments to rsync - Simply waiting for it to finish (it will sit there for literally days). This is what it looks like with -vvv: ... false_alarms=0 hash_hits=0 matches=0 sender finished data/www/virtual/_www.ageforce.dk/wwwroot/usrPictures/110x140_9f272336db751064bc808f3c5131f84f.jpg recv_generator(data/www/virtual/_www.ageforce.dk/wwwroot/usrPictures/110x140_9f2820d5a1c9d1d2b01988138523fe9c.jpg,54940) send_files(54940, data/www/virtual/_www.ageforce.dk/wwwroot/usrPictures/110x140_9f2820d5a1c9d1d2b01988138523fe9c.jpg) send_files mapped data/www/virtual/_www.ageforce.dk/wwwroot/usrPictures/110x140_9f2820d5a1c9d1d2b01988138523fe9c.jpg of size 4866 calling match_sums data/www/virtual/_www.ageforce.dk/wwwroot/usrPictures/110x140_9f2820d5a1c9d1d2b01988138523fe9c.jpg data/www/virtual/_www.ageforce.dk/wwwroot/usrPictures/110x140_9f2820d5a1c9d1d2b01988138523fe9c.jpg sending file_sum false_alarms=0 hash_hits=0 matches=0 sender finished data/www/virtual/_www.ageforce.dk/wwwroot/usrPictures/110x140_9f2820d5a1c9d1d2b01988138523fe9c.jpg recv_generator(data/www/virtual/_www.ageforce.dk/wwwroot/usrPictures/110x140_9f299dc6bd996d789b3fc7e73b6e86dd.jpg,54941) send_files(54941, data/www/virtual/_www.ageforce.dk/wwwroot/usrPictures/110x140_9f299dc6bd996d789b3fc7e73b6e86dd.jpg) send_files mapped data/www/virtual/_www.ageforce.dk/wwwroot/usrPictures/110x140_9f299dc6bd996d789b3fc7e73b6e86dd.jpg of size 4488 calling match_sums data/www/virtual/_www.ageforce.dk/wwwroot/usrPictures/110x140_9f299dc6bd996d789b3fc7e73b6e86dd.jpg data/www/virtual/_www.ageforce.dk/wwwroot/usrPictures/110x140_9f299dc6bd996d789b3fc7e73b6e86dd.jpg sending file_sum false_alarms=0 hash_hits=0 matches=0 sender finished data/www/virtual/_www.ageforce.dk/wwwroot/usrPictures/110x140_9f299dc6bd996d789b3fc7e73b6e86dd.jpg After this is Simply Just Hangs. With strace on the client and server, I can see that they are both stuck in a select() loop. I also tried running the client with ltrace, and after a GOOD long while, I got this output: http://i.imgur.com/wYRDO.png (I couldn't make copy-paste work from that terminal). Do you have any ideas what the problem might be? Or how I can help debug it? Right now we have a customer we simply cannot do a backup for, which is pretty bad :-) Thanks in advance for any input. -- De bedste hilsner, Christian Iversen Systemadministrator, Meebox.net ------- Denne e-mail kan indeholde fortrolige oplysninger. Er du ikke den rette modtager, bedes du returnere og slette denne e-mail. ------- -- 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
