>>>>> "Richard" == Richard 'Doc' Kinne <[email protected]> writes:
Richard> The partition I am trying to back up is coming from an NFS mounted Richard> volume and going to an attached external Firewire drive. The command Richard> I used in this test was: Richard> /usr/bin/rsync -ral --progress --stats --times --perms Richard> /Volumes/mira/ scsi /Volumes/burly_1/Mira/ --delete In this case, the -ral is redundant. 'a' mode already includes 'l'. I usually just do: rsync -arv --delete <src>/ <dest>/ In your case, you might also want to do '-H' for hard links if you think you have them. To make sure, I usually spell out all the 'a' options in scripts, so that it's crystal clear what I expect. Richard> Initially /Volumes/burly_1/Mira was empty. Richard> All went fine for a few hours. Then, seemingly toward the end, with Richard> the "web" directory (probably the most important, of course!) I Richard> started getting lines like: Richard> file has vanished: "/Volumes/mira/scsi/web/vsx/submit/ Richard> qry_getRemarks.php" Richard> file has vanished: "/Volumes/mira/scsi/web/vsx/submit/qry_getStar.php" Richard> file has vanished: "/Volumes/mira/scsi/web/vsx/submit/ Richard> qry_getVarTypes.php" Richard> file has vanished: "/Volumes/mira/scsi/web/vsx/submit/ Richard> qry_updateMethod.php" Richard> scsi/web/zapper/ Richard> file has vanished: "/Volumes/mira/scsi/web/zapper/.DS_Store" Richard> file has vanished: "/Volumes/mira/scsi/web/zapper/._index.shtml" Richard> file has vanished: "/Volumes/mira/scsi/web/zapper/._zapper.jnlp" Richard> file has vanished: "/Volumes/mira/scsi/web/zapper/._zapperButton.jpg" Richard> file has vanished: "/Volumes/mira/scsi/web/zapper/._zapperdoc.shtml" Richard> file has vanished: "/Volumes/mira/scsi/web/zapper/._zapperhelp.shtml" Richard> file has vanished: "/Volumes/mira/scsi/web/zapper/Zapper.jar" Richard> This is a small sample toward the end. There were hundreds of lines Richard> like this, almost as if rsync had just decided to give up. Richard> I went to /Volumes/mira/scsi/web/* and I was able to determine that Richard> these files were indeed there! Richard> Rsync ended with this data: Richard> Number of files: 766415 Richard> Number of files transferred: 746551 Richard> Total file size: 66995757081 bytes Richard> Total transferred file size: 66995737633 bytes Richard> Literal data: 43101421090 bytes Richard> Matched data: 0 bytes Richard> File list size: 17422528 Richard> File list generation time: 779.208 seconds Richard> File list transfer time: 0.000 seconds Richard> Total bytes sent: 43129805144 Richard> Total bytes received: 16543326 Richard> sent 43129805144 bytes received 16543326 bytes 6411523.66 bytes/sec Richard> total size is 66995757081 speedup is 1.55 Richard> rsync warning: some files vanished before they could be transferred Richard> (code 24) at /SourceCache/rsync/rsync-35.2/rsync/main.c(992) Richard> [sender=2.6.9] You should be ok here, 2.6.9 is the last of the 2.6 series. I was thinking you might have run into an rsync bug here. As others have said, just re-run the exact same rsync command and see what it says. That's the beauty of rsync. Also look into 'rdiff' for multiple backups, with compression and differences, so that you only keep the differences between the various versions, instead of multiple full copies. John _______________________________________________ bblisa mailing list [email protected] http://www.bblisa.org/mailman/listinfo/bblisa
