On Wed, 2005-08-31 at 15:08, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

> I don't think it's related specifically to rsync.  I think it may be more 
> related to something else that is affecting the TCP session. 
> Unfortunately, I can find nothing interesting in any of the logs on either 
> box...  :(
> 
> So, for now, I'm backing up just the data using SMB.  Works, but not 
> *nearly* as clean as my normal rsync solution.

I'm backing up a couple of centos4 boxes with tar and haven't noticed
any trouble.  Tar misses some things that rsync would catch on
incrementals, like old files under a renamed directory but is
OK otherwise if you have the bandwidth.

> I've asked for help on this one on both this list and a coule of others, 
> but no one else has any ideas, and I've gotten very little feedback.  This 
> is *not* unique to me, however.  There are others with simlar issues.  But 
> no solutions.

RHEL4 should have ipv6 support and tcp congestion control on by default
and these both can cause problems in various situations.  But, I don't
know enough about them to be much help.

-- 
  Les Mikesell
    [EMAIL PROTECTED]




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