Thank you for the suggestions! Rsync had worked for two other backups I had tried so I was at a loss for what would be different with this one. I took your advice and tried just a single file. I was unable to transfer it. I tried renaming then moving it, still unable to transfer. The symptoms got really weird. Finally, I tracked it down to a permission problem. The cache file directories had been created automatically by spambayes and for some reason they had permissions which my rsync user couldn't read.
I would have never gotten to that point without your kick in the pants. Thanks! Regards, Steve On 23 Jun 2004 at 17:33, root wrote: > On Wed, Jun 23, 2004 at 02:30:49PM -0700, Stephen Anderson wrote: > > Hello, > > > > I'm fairly new to rsync so please bear with me. I'm trying to use > > cwRsync to sync my spambayes installation between my laptop and home > > computer, both running WinXP. I have configured rsync servers > > (cwrsync) on both machines. > > > > Now, I am trying to pull the files from the laptop rsync server down > > to the home computer and I'm encountering the error: > > > > rsync error: some files could not be transferred (code 23) at > > main.c(1048) > > > > I checked to see what did and did not transfer. All of the spambayes > > "cache" files fail to transfer while the .db dbm files transfer fine. > > Each of these cache files is a text record of a raw email stream. > > The files have names like "1088009747-2". > > > > I looked in the source at 1048, and in error.h but all I could > > determine was that a partial file transfer error occured; just what > > it told me! > > > > My gut feeling is that it's having trouble creating the files with no > > extension. Can anybody help me find a way to work around this? > > Thanks for your time! > > ... and the actual command line producing this error is...? > > Have you tried narrowing it down by transferring only a single file? > > Do transfers work in the other direction? How about with the same > files? > > These are questions you should be asking yourself. If you already > have, then you should report your results. It seems you may have some > more work to do before you have enough information. > -chris > > > > > Regards, > > Steve > > > > -- > > To unsubscribe or change options: > > http://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/rsync Before posting, read: > > http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html > -- To unsubscribe or change options: http://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/rsync Before posting, read: http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html
