add "--timeout=<seconds>" Where <seconds> is how many seconds you would like it to wait before giving up.
On Tue, Jul 12, 2011 at 2:50 PM, Larry Irwin <mkit...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi All, > I have an rsync client that is not re-starting and/or timing out when the > server processes die/go away... > The client is rsync version 3.0.4 protocol version 30, natively compiled > on Debian 6, kernel 2.6.32.5-amd64. > The server is a QNAP NAS device running rsync version 3.0.6 protocol > version 30. > (I can change the client version if I need to, but not the version on the > QNAP device) > I am trying to rsync ~700gb to the QNAP device, hopefully once per day. > There are ~40,000,000 files, many of them rsync-snapshot hard-links. > It takes a long time, so I'm using LVM2 snapshots to get static views of > the data partitions. > I need to preserve the links or the destination size will multiply by a > factor of 6 or so... > The command I am using on the client is: > nice -n 19 rsync -ave "ssh -l ${LOGIN} -p ${PORT}" --links --hard-links > --perms --times --owner --group --delete --stats > --exclude-from=${RSHOME}/cfg/**rsyncbackup.exclude --link-dest=${LINKDEST} > / ${LOGIN}@${IPADDRESS}:..${**DEST} 2>&1 | gzip -9 > ${LOGNAME} > The client and the QNAP are connected on the LAN with 1Gb NIC's on Gb > switches. > When/if the server's rsync processes die (for an unknown reason at this > point), I'd love for the client to recognize this fact and jump-start the > server processes to pick up where they left off. > If not that, at least to quit and exit in a reasonable fashion... > At this moment, it is 2:45pm: The rsync started at 9:00am - the server > processes went away at 12:33 PM - the client processes are still running... > Any ideas would be greatly appreciated. > Thanks, > Larry Irwin > -- > 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 <https://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/rsync> > Before posting, read: > http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/**smart-questions.html<http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html> >
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