Hi,

I'm rsyncing between 2 Red Hat raidzone machines and I'm getting the following error:

rsync error: error in rsync protocol data stream (code 12) at main.c(620)

However, this only comes at the end of the syncing and all the files are synced (as far as I can tell). I read somewhere that this might mean the destination drive is too full, but that is not the case as the destination drive has over 100 GB left. Another error is that it says there is an IO error and so deletion won't take place. I was just wondering if anyone knew what these errors mean and if they can be ignored. Thanks. Here is the full command line (run in a cron job):

Thanks again.


-NifflerX

What versions of rsync are on each host?

The machine that is running rsync (the source machine) has version version 2.5.7 protocol version 26 while the receiving machines has version version 2.5.5 protocol version 26.

Would this cause the error? Should I update the version on the receiving machine? Thanks so much.


-NifflerX

I'd say updating would be a good idea.. they had some recent security vulnerabilities in all versions prior to the latest version.

Hi,

I did as you suggested and updated both the source and destination machines to rsync version 2.6.3 protocol version 28. Then I ran rsync and I believe it worked. I no longer get the error code 12 error. I do get this error:

rsync error: some files could not be transferred (code 23) at main.c(702)

But I can't find any files that it didn't transfer. Thanks so much for helping me with the other problem. If you know what this new error code is about I'd appreciate hearing about it, but it seems to be working to me. Thanks again!


-NifflerX

Glad to know that worked, not sure about the new error. If its copying all the files, nothing really to worry about. I've seen errors with rsync that made no sense to me but yet everything worked. If I come across anything though, I'll be sure to post.

I think I figured out what the error code 23 means. I've got many symlinks in the data I back up, and some of them are broken links. I think it's because of the broken links that I get this error. When I try the same backup procedure on smaller (broken link free) data set I get no errors. Hope this is useful to someone besides me .


-NifflerX

I think I might be having a kinda related problem. how do i tell what version of rsync i'm using on both my servers? i get that same code 23 at main.c(620) error.

You should be able to use
To see what version of rsync you are running. You'll have to do this on each server individually. HTH.

-NifflerX

Thanks, that worked. Sadly after I posted that I realized i was getting the error syncing between two different arrays in the same system, haha. at least i know how to check it now though!! many thanks.