Re: rsync 3.0.9 hangs when syncing from NFSv3 share - possible to retry after timeout?

2013-09-06 Thread Kevin Korb
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Is there a special reason why you don't use rsync or rsync over ssh as the communication method instead of NFS? You are being stuck with - --whole-file in this configuration not to mention the expense of doing a ton of stat() calls over the NFS. Also

rsync 3.0.9 hangs when syncing from NFSv3 share - possible to retry after timeout?

2013-09-06 Thread Andrew Martin
Hello, I'm using rsync 3.0.9 to backup several NFS shares from a fileserver, mounted over NFSv3, to a local RAID on a backup server. Both servers are running Ubuntu 12.04 server LTS. The fileserver's filesystem is ext4. The NFS shares are mounted on the backup server as follows: fileserver:/mnt