On Mon, May 07, 2001 at 05:11:23PM -0800, Michael wrote:
> In reading through the archives, I've seen this topic come up several
> times, but no real solutions. I posted the question on the
> FAQ-O-MATIC, then realized I should have posted here first.
>
> When mirroring a large tree from an rsync server the error
>
> unexpected EOF in read_timeout
> unexpected EOF in read_timeout
>
> occurs and the session terminates. This error repeats over and
> over resulting in the mirror process never completing. This is
> also repeatable on several public servers that have the same
> information. I don't know what is happening on the remote end,
> but suspect that it is some kind of resource limitation. If the
> transfer is attempted for small portions of the tree, all is
> well.
>
> local system dual celron 500 w/500meg ram, lots of disk
> linux-2.2.19
> rsync 2.4.6 fresh compile/install
> code line:
> /usr/bin/rsync -rlptD --timeout=0 --exclude=*~ \
> --delete-after --force $SOURCE $DEST
>
> where source dest =~
> some.rsync.server.com::/directory/path/ localpath
>
> This appears to be related to the size of the directory tree that is
> transferred I think, is there some way to limit this so mirroring
> with rsync really works, or must it be done manually for the tree
> slices?
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Check the log file of the rsync server. A number of error messages are
not reported to the client (mostly for security reasons, although some of
them may not actually be a security risk).
- Dave Dykstra
