[Eug-lug] rsync problems

[Garl Grigsby]

Rob Hudson wrote:
> Hi LUG,
>
> I'm helping a friend set up a sort of backup solution.  He's got a
> co-located Linux web server, and a Linux file server in his office
> behind a firewall.  I set up an rsync script to synchronize (pull) all
> the web files down at night.  The problem is that it's dying about 25%
> of the way through.  From the log error output it appears that since
> rsync can sometimes take a bit of time, something happens to the
> network connection during the sync and drops the connection.  This is
> the closest explanation I could find:
> http://www.mail-archive.com/rsync@lists.samba.org/msg14422.html
>
> So, what's a good alternate backup strategy?
>
> Goals are:
> * Mirror the directories on remote server periodically.
> * Would be nice to only pull down differences to save bandwidth but at
> this point it's not a priority.
>   
Rob,    
    What error message are you getting and what command line options are 
you using? Does it stop on the same file each time or after the same 
amount of transfer each time? (i.e. is there any discernible  pattern?).

Garl