Hi all,

Ive tried to be a bit tricky and set up two servers, one as my main and another offsite to act as a backup.

I have a series of rsync jobs that are to copy certain folders over ssh to the offiste server however Ive just checked and not all files are coming across.

The raw rsync job is The users ID's on both machines do not match, however the user calling the job on the remote server has full access to that data drive likewise the ssh connected user has full access to the local server.

I have tried adding in with no success.

Any ideas why this would be missing some files/folders?

Thankyou
Paul

are you pushing this out to any kind of log file so you can see exactly what is going on or are you just running the rsync manually?

fyi i always use -aviS, so you could -avziS if you need the compression like you are using above.

might be a good idea to create a script that will log the entire rsync output so you can go back and see exactly what files are transferred and what are not as well as why.

i have seen rsync refuse to move a file if it is in use and changes during the process of sending.

Thanks for your response,

I am logging this in my script.

Ive found my issue...and this is a newbie forum after all - I moved the folder in question within another folder on the source but as I dont use the -delete command it didnt do the clean up.

Cheers
Paul