I think it's very hard to be sure what's going on with
--remove-source-files ; I think you should drop that option, look
for whether the problem continues, and if you need the files to be
cleaned up, do so in a separate step.
In particular as someone else suggested, are you *sure* the original
Albert Croft via rsync wrote:
> ... I am currently using the 'split' command to break the files
> into 1-GB "chunks" (ex.: foo.tgz.aa, foo.tgz.ab, ...).
> ...
> I am frequently encountering times where the file appears to
> have been transferred but is incomplete. (Example: foo.tgz.ab
> now