Thanks for the reply. The filesystems are on different disks on the same machine.
I should have mentioned in my original post that the transfer works for a while then hangs. I've read on the rsync page to run an strace and here are the results, just before the hang occurrs: select(5, NULL, [4], NULL, {60, 0}) = 1 (out [4], left {60, 0}) write(4, "\0\200\0\0", 4) = 4 select(5, NULL, [4], NULL, {60, 0}) = 1 (out [4], left {60, 0}) write(4, "\"src/dir/filename.."..., 32768) = 32768 select(5, NULL, [4], NULL, {60, 0}) = 1 (out [4], left {59, 999000}) write(4, "\0\0\0\0", 4) = 4 select(5, NULL, [4], NULL, {60, 0}) = 1 (out [4], left {60, 0}) write(4, "\223\316\\\340\23\4F\33\f\306t\1\251\202\25\22", 16) = 16 munmap(0xb2958000, 266240) = 0 close(3) = 0 select(6, [5], [], NULL, {60, 0}) = 1 (in [5], left {60, 0}) read(5, "\32\0\0\t", 4) = 4 select(6, [5], [], NULL, {60, 0}) = 1 (in [5], left {60, 0}) read(5, "src/dir/\n", 26) = 26 write(1, "src/dir/\n", 26) = 26 select(6, [5], [], NULL, {60, 0}) = 0 (Timeout) select(6, [5], [], NULL, {60, 0}) = 0 (Timeout) select(6, [5], [], NULL, {60, 0} The hangs can last 5-10mins+ with the same above timeout lines repeating over and over at maybe 2min intervals before finally continuing. I don't know if this additional information helps diagnose the problem at all, I've spent all day trying to find a solution to no avail. -- To unsubscribe or change options: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/rsync Before posting, read: http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html