rsync from mirror - problem

[Gabriel Ramirez]

On 04/18/2011 08:19 AM, Genes MailLists wrote:
> On 04/18/2011 08:04 AM, Gabriel Ramirez wrote:
>
>> and what filesystem have your server???
>
>     ext3
>
>    Possibly - except if it was a time stamp issue - why would it delete
> the file - that should trigger a check and the file contents would be
> checksummed for each rsync block - it should not trigger a delete
> followed by a download I wouldn't think.
>

well rsync as I far know (I'm only a user of it)  don't have the 
behavior you describe, if the timestamp differs in microseconds rsync 
(maybe to be quick) don't bother to check for checksums or filesizes at 
least with -av flags, so with the flag --modify-window loose a little 
the timestamp comparisons

but ext3 don't have that problem , at least that's my experience, but 
maybe doing  ls -l --full-time before and after the transfer shows some 
light about the problem

or try to save some file to another location run again a limited rsync 
and compare the files (or try checkingwith a md5 signature text file in 
the server) but if them are different maybe one stick of RAM is failing, 
I have a problem like that after some succesfull runs rsync but always 
the md5 failed when checked manually and the problem was a failed RAM 
module (the machine passed the bios test every time , but memtest86 
detected the faulty module

Gabriel