Re: Rsync stops inmid of synchronisation

2012-03-15 Thread Richard Ivarson
OK, so I called "strace -p " where ID is the pid of a running rsync command. Then I waited until the rsync command timed out due to the unknown problem which I try to encircle. In short the problem is: two computers with WinXP_pro 32bit and up-to-date Cygwin are connected, and I try to rsync s

Re: Rsync stops inmid of synchronisation

2012-03-15 Thread Richard Ivarson
Am 13.03.2012 21:00, schrieb David Sastre Medina: On Mon, Mar 12, 2012 at 01:48:45PM +0100, Richard Ivarson wrote: Is there a way to increase the verbosity level of the sending rsync (aside the parameter "-v" which we can increase to "-vv" or even "-vvv") ? Or could rsync print further helpful

Re: Rsync stops inmid of synchronisation

2012-03-13 Thread David Sastre Medina
On Mon, Mar 12, 2012 at 01:48:45PM +0100, Richard Ivarson wrote: > Is there a way to increase the verbosity level of the sending rsync > (aside the parameter "-v" which we can increase to "-vv" or even > "-vvv") ? > Or could rsync print further helpful information about what it is > doing right now

Re: Rsync stops inmid of synchronisation

2012-03-12 Thread Richard Ivarson
Is there a way to increase the verbosity level of the sending rsync (aside the parameter "-v" which we can increase to "-vv" or even "-vvv") ? Or could rsync print further helpful information about what it is doing right now ? Because that could help me. With "-vvv" rsync prints information abo

Re: Rsync stops inmid of synchronisation

2012-03-06 Thread Richard Ivarson
LMH, thank you for your hints. So I checked all the drives and files and they're good, as well as the other hardware. Also the file's permissions are good. The idea to sync just one folder after the other is good. It turned out that those few folders with many smaller files (up to 35000 files

Re: Rsync stops inmid of synchronisation

2012-02-29 Thread LMH
One thing to check is the disk drives. I have had rsync stop when it reaches corrupted sectors, especially if those sectors corrupt part of the file system. I don't remember anything helpful in the log files, I just noticed that it wasn't finishing. Try running disk diagnostic software and make

Rsync stops inmid of synchronisation

2012-02-29 Thread Richard Ivarson
Good day, I've successfully used Cygwin and in particular it's RSYNC for many years, for example to sync a Windows XP computer named Sendi to another XP computer named Desti in a local network. Since a few months however rsync is causing me endless trouble. I regularly upgrade to new version