I have a nightly rsync of a DMZ system (Solaris 8 SPARC[1]) to an
internal system (RedHat ES 3.0 [2]). The internal system runs a cron job and pulls
changes off of the DMZ system via ssh. (To be honest, I've also seen this going between two Solaris systems.)
However, my syncs are much bigger then they should be. I'm getting a bunch more than I expect - files that haven't changed in a long time are being deleted and re-sync'd.
Here's an example of the command being used: rsync -alvx --delete --rsh=ssh [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/ /backups0/hosts/xxxx/rsync/
(I use -x to avoid crossing filesystems, as I only back up certain ones. The xxxx refers to the hostname of the DMZ system.)
What I see are files like this getting hit every night in the log: (real user name blanked.)
[...] deleting home/xuserx/public_html/vat5.JPG [...]
Then later the file is written.
If you look at the file on the host:
# ls -la vat5.JPG -rw-rw-r-- 1 xuserx xgroupx 39816 Jan 3 2000 vat5.JPG
This is strange. And it's happening for thousands of files. The systems
have the same date and time, I checked that out...
I'm at wit's end on this one. If anybody has any ideas, I'd be happy to hear them. Also, I can provide more output if desired.
Cheers,
-Pete Wargo
[1] rsync version 2.5.6 protocol version 26. Capabilities: 64-bit files, socketpairs, hard links, symlinks, batchfiles, no IPv6, 64-bit system inums, 64-bit internal inums
[2] rsync version 2.5.6 protocol version 26. Capabilities: 64-bit files, socketpairs, hard links, symlinks, batchfiles, IPv6, 64-bit system inums, 64-bit internal inums
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