On Thu, Feb 17, 2011, Shai wrote: > > Hello list, > I have a cron that runs a sync processes every night. Lately, it began > erroring out with this error: > > rsync: connection unexpectedly closed (217717 bytes received so far) > [sender] > rsync error: unexplained error (code 255) at io.c(601) > [sender=3.0.7] > ... > I can't make out why there is a connection issue, and when I tried > running this twice, manually (ie. run the script manually and not from > cron), it never failed.
When I've seen things like this it was usually something like a disk-full problem on the receiving end or a network problem. This usually happens after midnight when all our systems are doing daily maintenance runs including cross-machine backups using rsync, a period where some large files may be created leaving marginal space on a drive which don't show up in the morning after the maintenance runs complete and clean up. I would look at the rsync and system logs on the receiving machine around the time of the failures. Bill -- INTERNET: b...@celestial.com Bill Campbell; Celestial Software LLC URL: http://www.celestial.com/ PO Box 820; 6641 E. Mercer Way Voice: (206) 236-1676 Mercer Island, WA 98040-0820 Fax: (206) 232-9186 Skype: jwccsllc (206) 855-5792 Everything secret degenerates, even the administration of justice. Nothing is safe that does not show it can bear discussion and publicity. -- Lord Acton -- Please use reply-all for most replies to avoid omitting the mailing list. To unsubscribe or change options: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/rsync Before posting, read: http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html
