I have been using rsync for the last year or so. Generally I am very pleased with the performance and features, but I am forced to use a rather unreliable link to one of my mirrors. Consequentially rsync often bails out with a protocol error in the middle of a large session due to transient misbehaviour on the link. This appears to abort the whole transfer. One solution would appear to be an option to log the error then attempt the next file in the set. Is there a patch to allow this? Has anyone had similar problems?
If, after the file list phase, an error occurs on a file the
abort will only affect that file and those that follow. All
previously processed files have been updated. Many people
with unreliable links loop until success. Each successive
run will get you a bit further along.
Thanks for your reply. I have already tried what you suggest. My problem is that preceding files often get changed after being mirrored. Starting the whole process again gives "priority" to earlier files in the set. With one of my links this results in a virtually infinite loop. If rsync just moved to the next file, I think this would give a more even chance for all files in a set to update. Any other suggestions?
TIA
Dave.
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