An update on this problem... I get the error below (and the error I reported previously) when running rsync 2.5.2 compiled from source. I saw different behavior when I used the rsync 2.5.2 binary compiled on Solaris 2.5.1 by Dave Dykstra. That binary complained of "Value too large for defined data type" whenever it encountered a large file (over 2GB), but did not exit. The impression I got was that the Solaris 2.5.1 binary did not support or even try to support files over 2 GB, where the binary compiled on Solaris 7 or 8 *thinks* it can support large files but fails, since it exits as soon as it encounters the large file.
So the problem still remains: rsync is dying when it encounters a large file. One person suggested using --exclude, but this only matches against file names, not file sizes. (I can't do "--exclude=size>2GB" for example.) Questions I still have: - Is rsync supposed to support files >2GB on Solaris 7 and Solaris 8? - If so, what is causing the errors I am seeing? Is there something I can do at compile time? - If not, is there a way for it to skip large files gracefully so that at least the rsync process completes? leelab/NCBI_Data_old/GenBank/htg write failed on leelab/NCBI_Data_old/GenBank/htg : Error 0 rsync error: error in file IO (code 11) at receiver.c(243) Received signal 16. (no core) rsync: connection unexpectedly closed (23123514 bytes read so far) rsync error: error in rsync protocol data stream (code 12) at io.c(140) > -----Original Message----- > From: Granzow, Doug (NCI) > Sent: Monday, February 11, 2002 11:08 AM > To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' > Subject: error in rsync protocol on large file > > > I'm trying to rsync a filesystem from a Solaris 7 server to a > Solaris 8 > server. I keep getting the following message when rsync > attempts to update > a particular file: > > write failed on leelab/NCBI_Data/GenBank/htg : Error 0 > rsync error: error in file IO (code 11) at receiver.c(243) > > Received signal 16. (no core) > rsync: connection unexpectedly closed (22672537 bytes read so far) > rsync error: error in rsync protocol data stream (code 12) at > io.c(140) > > The file it is getting the error on is very large: > > -rw-rw-r-- 1 leema staff 4633417879 Apr 30 2001 htg > > # rsync --version > rsync version 2.5.2 protocol version 26 > Copyright (C) 1996-2002 by Andrew Tridgell and others > <http://rsync.samba.org/> > Capabilities: 64-bit files, socketpairs, hard links, > symlinks, batchfiles, > no IPv6, > 64-bit system inums, 64-bit internal inums > > Does rsync simply not handle files this large? Is there something in > config.h I can change to support large files (I see "#undef > _LARGE_FILES" > but the comment above it indicates it is only for AIX)? If I > can't get > rsync to copy large files, is there a way to get it to skip > them, so that > the rest of the files do get synced? > > Thanks > Doug >
