Rob, Do you know how long does it take to sync. What kind of HW you have on both the machines? Any GigaBit network?
Walls Rob W Contr 75 CS/SCBS wrote: > Things seem to be working now. It fixed itself after a dozen or so sync > cycles. It was pretty traumatic watching all those files being deleted, but > they were eventually restored on subsequent cycles. I don't know if anyone > else has experienced this, but in my case things worked out OK. I suspect > that rsync was working fine, but there must be some odd subtleties in file > attributes or even file size issues in the way I'm feeding rsync the source > directory. > > Rob Walls > > -----Original Message----- > From: Walls Rob W Contr 75 CS/SCBS [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Tuesday, February 17, 2004 3:26 PM > To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' > Subject: Erratic Trouble rsyncing between windows share and linux > > > I am trying to rsync between two linux boxes, but one of the linux boxes is > using samba to map a share from a windows SAN onto it's file system. Rsync > quit working properly when I changed the source directory from a local ext3 > filesystem to the windows share mapped onto the filesystem. This setup may > be kind of odd, but I need to keep user's data on the SAN and I also need > the linux box to generate dynamic content which is all then mirrored using > rsync to a remote web server. I can't run rsync or ftp directly on the SAN > machine or have any control of the SAN other than file permissions, so I > thought rsync would work just as well as it always has. Well, now old files > are seemingly arbitrarily picked up as needing synchronizing when they don't > and a different set of (also a random set of old files) are picked every run > of rsync. Weird. New files ARE accurately found and synchronized, however. > But, worst of all, seemingly random files are deleted from the remote box, > since I am using the delete option. > I've heard there is a file mod time resolution difference between linux and > windows, but it seems that would produce more consistent symptoms. > The only difference between the previous working and current non-working > rsync setups is that now one of the source directories is mapped from a > windows machine (I used mount -t smbfs, because smbmount didn't seem to want > to work either, sheesh). All rsync versions, exclude file contents and > calling syntax is the same. The source directory I'm having problems with > has 100,000+ files and is about 4.5Gb total size. Does anyone have any ideas > as to why this is not working using a samba share? > > Rob Walls > -- To unsubscribe or change options: http://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/rsync Before posting, read: http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html
