--timeout=... lesson learned...

2011-08-01 Thread Bjorn Madsen
I thought other might benefit from this lesson learned and thought it maybe should be added to the man-pages. I thought my network connection was glitchy and hence set rsync up for --timeout=120 but I found out that I was actually causing the glitch with this script: #! /bin/sh - while true; do rs

How to call rsync client so that is detects that server has gone away?

2011-07-13 Thread Bjorn Madsen
Hi Larry, Your tech details are way beyond my knowledge, but maybe python can do the job for you too? I use this python script (from the python cookbook) and crontab to keep my sheep in the dry: #!/usr/bin/env python #wraps up rsync to synchronize two directories # ! -- should contain check of dis