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Old 03-25-2006, 09:32 PM   #1
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rsync fails with USB hard drive


I am trying to use rsync to copy approximately 400GB of data from my file server to an external USB hard drive (specifically, the 500GB Seagate drive). Copying most of the data is no problem at all, but there is one huge (tar) archive file that is 203GB, and I cannot for the life of me get rsync to copy this file to my USB hard drive.

Rsync copies this file (along with the rest of the data) just fine over the network. I have copied this data between different file servers, and I have had no problem. However, as soon as I try to use rsync to copy to the USB hard drive, I get errors and the copy fails.

I am running Fedora Core 4 with the 2.6.15-1.1833_FC4 kernel. My rsync package is rsync-2.6.4-3. Specifically, with the command

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rsync -rtlv --progress /path/to/huge/file /media/SEA_DISC
I see the following errors:

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rsync: writefd_unbuffered failed to write 4 bytes: phase "unknown" [sender]: Broken pipe (32)
rsync: connection unexpectedly closed (35 bytes received so far) [generator]
rsync error: error in rsync protocol data stream (code 12) at io.c(420)
rsync: connection unexpectedly closed (30 bytes received so far) [sender]
rsync error: error in rsync protocol data stream (code 12) at io.c(420)
I have also tried

Code:
rsync -rtlv --bwlimit=8192 --timeout=600 --progress /path/to/huge/file /mesia/USBhd
as was described at http://www.mail-archive.com/rsync@li.../msg15618.html . But I get the same errors. What is it about using rsync via USB that is causing it to fail with this data when copying over the network works just fine?
 
Old 03-26-2006, 11:54 PM   #2
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Hi

What filesystem do you have on the USB drive??,maybe format it as XFS for large files?
That might be the problem

Cheers
 
Old 03-27-2006, 12:14 PM   #3
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I didn't even think about that. How do I find out what filesystem is on the USB drive? I do a 'df -h', but all that tells me is that /dev/sdb1 is mounted on /media/SEA_DISC with the total, used, and available space on the device.

Would I just use 'mkfs' to format it? The filesystem on all my file servers is Reiser, and I don't remember formatting the Seagate drive. Maybe I blundered badly there.
 
Old 03-27-2006, 01:02 PM   #4
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Ah, I see I can use 'mount' to find the filesystem type. I formatted the USB hard drive with the Reiser filesystem, and it looks to be copying successfully. Rsync is much farther through the 203GB file than it has ever gotten previously. It looks like the filesystem issue was the problem.

Thanks for your help, shawnbishop. I really appreciate it.
 
  


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