Re: Rsync died on big directories/file-lists

On Tue, Dec 09, 2003 at 01:54:25PM -0500, Vu Huynh wrote:
> 
> 
>   Hi,
> 
>      My name is Vu Huynh.  I'm currently work for Atmel Corporation.  We're 
>      using Rsync v2.5.7 to rsync design kits between our remote sites.  It 
> works 
> fine for all small kit directories.  However, there is 1 BIG kit directory 
> (But there is no file has the size of bigger than 100MB) that always gets 
> "rsync: connection unexpectedly closed" Error.  The Full Error Message is 
> below:
> 
>  % rsync --password-file  -avz user@host::KIT1 KIT1 --exclude '5.*' 
>  --exclude '6.*'
> receiving file list ... done
> ./
> 7.0/
> 7.0/bin/
> 7.0/bin/AWK/
> 7.0/bin/IA32,Linux_2.4.7-10,32bits/
>     ..............
>     ..............
> 7.0/tools_sources/
> 7.0/tools_sources/templates/
> rsync: connection unexpectedly closed (1892713 bytes read so far)
> rsync error: error in rsync protocol data stream (code 12) at io.c(165)
> 
>     Does file-list has a size limitation?  Or something was not setup right 
>     in this kit directory? I hope you can have any clue/suggestion of what 
> was 
>  wrong or limitation of rsync.

If you have gotten to the point of processing files it is
unlikely that the size of the file list is the issue.

With the information given my best guess is that something
is causing a delay where no data is being sent and the
firewall is dropping the session.

You might try another -v option to see if you can get more
specific info about what file rsync is processing or other
possible causes for a stall.


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