Package: rsync
Version: 2.6.9-2etch1
Severity: critical
Justification: causes serious data loss
Hi,
I did notice that rsync fails to transfer some files (eg:
/var/log/ntpstats/*) and dies on files in that directory on any
non-initial run.
On the first run, it all goes well.
On the subsequent runs:
donald:~# rsync -aAzHRxby -vP --exclude='var/log/ntpstats' --numeric-ids
--suffix='' --backup-dir=/backup/local/gloups.lncsa.com/2008-04-YY
'gloups.lncsa.com:/{etc,var/log}'
/backup/local/gloups.lncsa.com/current
receiving file list ...
14452 files to consider
...
...
var/log/ntpstats/
var/log/ntpstats/loopstats
884 100% 1.59kB/s 0:00:00 (xfer#11, to-check=182/14473)
var/log/ntpstats/peerstats
8306 100% 14.97kB/s 0:00:00 (xfer#12, to-check=172/14473)
zsh: segmentation fault rsync -aAzHRxby -vP --numeric-ids --suffix=''
rsync: connection unexpectedly closed (120216 bytes received so far) [sender]
rsync error: error in rsync protocol data stream (code 12) at io.c(453)
[sender=2.6.9]
rsync: connection unexpectedly closed (447235 bytes received so far) [receiver]
rsync error: error in rsync protocol data stream (code 12) at io.c(453)
[receiver=2.6.9]
If i now use an exclude (--exclude='var/log/ntpstats'), it finishes
without any problem.
I did use critical severity because, if you use rsync to make backups...
it can be messy to realize your backups are just useless.
Thanks
Laurent
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Versions of packages rsync depends on:
ii libacl1 2.2.41-1 Access control list shared library
ii libc6 2.3.6.ds1-13etch2 GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii libpopt0 1.10-3 lib for parsing cmdline parameters
ii lsb-base 3.1-22 Linux Standard Base 3.1 init scrip
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