Re: rsync out of memory in flist_expand

2011-06-21 Thread Christophe Lyon
>> >> It ends with: >> rsync: connection unexpectedly closed > > See the issues and debugging page for lots of hints about what that means > and how to go about debugging it. Thanks for the hint. However, I couldn't use the --rsync-path option: there is no error message, but the option is not taken

Re: rsync out of memory in flist_expand

2011-06-20 Thread Wayne Davison
On Mon, Jun 20, 2011 at 3:17 PM, Christophe Lyon wrote: > It ends with: > rsync: connection unexpectedly closed See the issues and debugging page for lots of hints about what that means and how to go about debugging it. One new thing in 3.1.0dev is the --msgs2stderr option, which tells rsync to

Re: rsync out of memory in flist_expand

2011-06-20 Thread Christophe Lyon
On Mon, Jun 20, 2011 at 8:40 AM, Wayne Davison wrote: > On Fri, Jun 17, 2011 at 2:22 AM, Christophe Lyon > wrote: >> >> When using rsync-3.0.8 from Ubuntu, it seemed to be looping with >> make_file("usr/bin/head", ...). > > Do you have a bind mount in that hierarchy that points to a higher direct

Re: rsync out of memory in flist_expand

2011-06-19 Thread Wayne Davison
On Fri, Jun 17, 2011 at 2:22 AM, Christophe Lyon wrote: > When using rsync-3.0.8 from Ubuntu, it seemed to be looping with > make_file("usr/bin/head", ...). > Do you have a bind mount in that hierarchy that points to a higher directory in the same hierarchy, and thus would induce an infinite loop

rsync out of memory in flist_expand

2011-06-17 Thread Christophe Lyon
Hi, I have been using rsync for years to perform my backups, but since a few days it crashes with an "out of memory" error. I am running Ubuntu 11.04/x86_64, which ships rsync-3.0.8, and I have also tried with the git version. I can see the following messages: [generator] expand file_list pointe