incomplete local directory syncronisation

[Colin Nathan]

Hi all,   I continue to have difficulties when attempting to synchronize between two local directories. One of them is a NetWare volume mounted using NCP. The catalogue builds and the synchronization of the two directory's starts. For a reason unknown to me, the process will stop completely when it reaches a certain file. When the file in question is excluded, the synchronization will continue on past the location of that file until it possibly reaches another file that it will not transfer and stop completely on that as well. I am unsure as to why rsync stops on these particular files, I can find nothing in common with any of them. I have gone and viewed some of the files in question, and they are fine.   I started with the following:   rsync -ravu --stats --exclude *.gho  /mnt/bmhsnlc-s4/usr  /replication/bmhsnlc-s4/   and then as suggested added the -W or --whole-file switch. This does not seem to make any difference to the files that will not copy. The files range in size from 8k to 52mb. The amount of data that is being sync'd in any one attempt is about 4GB. The NetWare 5 server is on the same subnet as our Linux box, and is 100Mbit switched. I am at a loss to try and explain what is occurring. Any idea's???   Thanks to Dave Dykstra for your earlier assistance.   Thanks and regards,   Colin Nathan Faculty of Life Sciences RMIT University Melbourne, Australia