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Old 08-21-2009, 08:47 AM   #1
lwainscott
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Question rsync error: IO error encountered - skipping file deletion

I am trying to use rsync to keep 2 machines in sync. I get the following error sometimes. If I rerun the rsync it usually works.

IO error encountered - skipping file deletion
 
Old 08-21-2009, 12:15 PM   #2
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Congrats.


Or did you have a question?


The message means rsync encountered an error and so to be safe did not delete anything. There should be more errors before that that would have clues.
 
  


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