-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 The other case where I have seen this is when one of the systems has bad RAM that is corrupting the file in memory.
On 04/06/2016 09:48 AM, Fabian Cenedese wrote: > Hi > > We synch between servers, some are NAS with RAIDs, some are simple > Linux servers. Sometimes I get messages like: > > WARNING: path/to/file failed verification -- update retained (will > try again). > > What are the possible reasons for this message? I looked on the > Internet and found old posts about a problem with big files. I do > get this message with big files (GB) but also with small files > (<1MB). Of course if a file is changed while being synched then a > problem is to be expected. But most files are surely not written at > this moment. The error usually only happens once for one file, the > retry or a second synch run okay. > > Does this mean that the file content is wrong? Is this a problem of > the connection? What else can be done to improve the reliability of > the backup? > > Thanks > > bye Fabi > > - -- ~*-,._.,-*~'`^`'~*-,._.,-*~'`^`'~*-,._.,-*~'`^`'~*-,._.,-*~'`^`'~*-,._., Kevin Korb Phone: (407) 252-6853 Systems Administrator Internet: FutureQuest, Inc. ke...@futurequest.net (work) Orlando, Florida k...@sanitarium.net (personal) Web page: http://www.sanitarium.net/ PGP public key available on web site. ~*-,._.,-*~'`^`'~*-,._.,-*~'`^`'~*-,._.,-*~'`^`'~*-,._.,-*~'`^`'~*-,._., -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2 iEYEARECAAYFAlcFGRAACgkQVKC1jlbQAQdmvQCfWmmajy29Euf6WlYUv1vjBS7D ab8An2bahvz3Hcf3iWamW3IEYVb3ajE9 =m3x6 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- 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