rsync IO Error

crashsystems · 10-06-2006, 11:58 AM

Last week I set up a backup file server using SSH, rsync and public key authentication with the following script in /etc/cron.hourly:

Code:

#! /bin/bash
 PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin
 

 rsync -ave ssh --delete-after backup@192.168.0.100:/mnt/drive1/Shared /mnt/backup > /home/admin/rsync.hourly.log

I have checked the log file rsync.hourly.log several times a day to keep track of the backup process. Everything was running well, until yesterday, it started giveing me error messages. Here is the log from the last backup that was done:

Code:

receiving file list ... done
 Shared/Accounting/Letters-Memos/
 Shared/Accounting/Letters-Memos/Proof of Address letter.doc
 Shared/ContactsDB/Database/
 Shared/ContactsDB/Database/Contacts.ldb
 Shared/ContactsDB/Database/Contacts.mdb
 IO error encountered -- skipping file deletion
 

 sent 46080 bytes  received 1310028 bytes  14052.93 bytes/sec
 total size is 67575835171  speedup is 49830.72

To see if I could get some more info on what was going on, I checked in /var/log/syslog to see if cron was giving me any error messages, but it is not. The backup server is running Ubuntu 6.06, and the files being backed up are on a hard drive shared via samba on a server running Mandriva 2006. If anyone has any idea of what is going on and how to fix it, your help will be appreciated.

crashsystems

marcon · 10-06-2006, 02:10 PM

does the tape rewind when starts the tape or just append it? it could be a full tape... have you tryed a new tape?

crashsystems · 10-06-2006, 11:54 PM

The backup medium is an IDE hard drive (200 GB), and there is a lot of free room on it currently.

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Micro420 · 01-14-2007, 10:40 PM

Like the original poster, I am having this error when I try to rsync using the --delete option. I get the IO error encountered -- skipping file deletion. Anyone have any idea why we are getting this? I am backing up to an IDE internal hard drive with plenty of room on it.

Micro420 · 01-17-2007, 11:15 PM

Well, I fixed this weird IO error problem. Originally I was rsyncing with this command:

Code:

rsync -azvgotu --exclude=/blahblah --delete -e ssh username@my.ipaddress.com:/path /home/backup

I would then get the I/O error. So then I did this:

Code:

rsync -azv --exclude=/blahblah --ignore-errors -e ssh username@my.ipaddress.com:/path /home/backup

The bolded parts are what I changed and that fixed the I/O problem. Now it deletes fine. I suspect it either has to do with me trying to carry over the owner,group, and time (-azvgotu) and/or the --ignore-errors option. The users/groups do not exist on the computer I am trying to backup on to. Weird, but it works now.