Excluding all compression options was not an acceptable solution for me. What has worked since I initially found this problem back in August was to install rsync from the utopic repository where the bug was fixed. That same version (3.1.1-3) is still available in vivid and wily unchanged as far as I can tell.
Example: wget http://mirrors.kernel.org/ubuntu/pool/main/r/rsync/rsync_3.1.1-3_amd64.deb sudo dpkg -i rsync_3.1.1-3_amd64.deb Or for x86: wget http://mirrors.kernel.org/ubuntu/pool/main/r/rsync/rsync_3.1.1-3_i386.deb sudo dpkg -i rsync_3.1.1-3_i386.deb Problem solved. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1384503 Title: rsync fails on large files with compression To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/rsync/+bug/1384503/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
