Re: rsync seems to hang when --delete option is used.

2004-12-15 Thread Wayne Davison
On Thu, Dec 09, 2004 at 04:02:05PM -0500, Tony Shum wrote: When I use --delete option, it seems to hang for over 8 hours on 4.5Gb of total data. The --delete option causes rsync to read the local hierarchy, and construct a list of files to compare with the remote file list. If it is hanging,

Re: rsync seems to hang when --delete option is used.

2004-12-15 Thread Marc G. Fournier
Actually, I get similar on our system(s) for very large directory structures ... I've changed my scripts so that it times out after 15 minutes and re-tries up to 5 times before considering it a failure, which appears to have 'gotten around' the problem ... When it hangs, i've tried setting

rsync seems to hang when --delete option is used.

2004-12-09 Thread Tony Shum
Hi, When I use --delete option, it seems to hang for over 8 hours on 4.5Gb of total data. But when I remove the --delete option, I can see it starts rsyncing. Has anyone encounter this problem before? --Tony Shum -- To unsubscribe or change options:

Re: rsync seems to hang when --delete option is used.

2004-12-09 Thread Chuck Wolber
On Thu, 9 Dec 2004, Tony Shum wrote: When I use --delete option, it seems to hang for over 8 hours on 4.5Gb of total data. But when I remove the --delete option, I can see it starts rsyncing. Has anyone encounter this problem before? What type of filesystem is your data on (ext3, xfs,