Re: Curious about ALRM error

Peter Shipley wrote:
> Hi folks,
>
> I am curious about the following error:
> "Got fatal error during xfer (aborted by signal=ALRM)"
>
> It happened using rsync over ssh between two linux boxes backing up two 
> locations, probably around 20GB each. It seemed to have done the first 
> location fine but when it came to the second one it threw this error and 
> stopped (current file it was working on seemed to be 150MB)
>
> I tried the process again using just the area where the problem occurred 
> to see if it was location specific (i.e. mangled file of some sort) but 
> it worked fine. I am in the process of trying to reproduce the error 
> with rsync logging turned up so in the mean time wondered what an "ALRM" 
> error was and why it might be generated ?


Never mind - found it.

Was thinking that $Conf{ClientTimeout} referred to a single file operation it 
didn't occur to me that the entire transfer was a single operation. My fault for 
not reading the comments closely.


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