Wild
guess, but that sounds a lot like a disk drive going bad.
An
error message like The file or
directory is corrupted and unreadable.
There
is essentially no way that an application (including rsync)
can
cause that kind of thing.
You
probably can cause that by messing with the controller
registers
or
sticking strange stuff into the control or data lines.
A bad
place on the disk (and it has to be pretty bad or you will not notice
it)
or
cables that aren't really plugged in
or a
failing or very weak power supply are all potential causes.
Probably no way to know, but does it happen on the same sectors every
time?
FAT32
is probably on a different drive, but
(essentially they are race conditions or timing
errors)
working on one and failing on the other doesn't mean
much.
Although,FAT32 is probably much less likely to lose you
data
(I've
seen NTFS "fixed" by wiping out a directory that was
unreadable)
Curiously, backups have to be the standard place to discover you need the
backup.
(while
in the process of destroying the backup you need;)
-----Original Message-----Hi,
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]On Behalf Of darrin hodges
Sent: Friday, May 12, 2006 12:06 AM
To: rsync@lists.samba.org
Subject: random file corruption on NTFS
We are using Rsync version 2.6.8 protocol version 29 on a winNT box to backup a linux (RedHat 9.0) box (same version of rsync) and everynight a different file on the NT server is reported as being corrupt, there are no errors in the rsync logs on either side. NT Event log records:
Event Type: Error
Event Source: Ntfs
Event Category: Disk
Event ID: 55
Date: 12/05/2006
Time: 3:05:19 AM
User: N/A
Computer: [ Deleted ]
Description:
The file system structure on the disk is corrupt and unusable. Please run the chkdsk utility on the volume TESTDATA.
For more information, see Help and Support Center at http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/events.asp.
Data:
0000: 00 00 04 00 02 00 52
we use BrightStor ARCserve Backup as backup software on the NT server, it reports:
Unable to open file. (FILE=F:\database\base_currency\country_list.frm, EC=The file or directory is corrupted and unreadable.)
The file reported is different every day, we have tried turning off the 'z' option, as that was causing an error when attempting to transfer large already compressed files but did not resolve this particular problem. We have noticed that the error does not occur on a FAT32 volume, is there a problem with rsync interacting with the NTFS?.
Thanks
Darrin.
-- To unsubscribe or change options: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/rsync Before posting, read: http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html
