rsync -az --timeout=90 --partial --port=873 --password-file=pasword.tmp root@192.168.0.99::'mirv/vol0//17 - Check day.vob' '/media/video/recordings/vol0//17 - Check day.vob' 10 minutes later: I do Ctrl/C rsync error: received SIGINT, SIGTERM, or SIGHUP (code 20) at rsync.c(276) [generator=2.6.9] $ ls -l 17* -rwxrwxrwx 1 lary lary 2124622946 Dec 25 12:55 17 - Check day.vob The limit 2 GB is exceeded. rsync -az --timeout=90 --partial --port=873 --password-file=pasword.tmp root@192.168.0.99::'mirv/vol0//17 - Check day.vob' '/media/video/recordings/vol0//17 - Check day.vob' I observed of the program rsync by iptraf. After transfer 335 Kb data transfer stopped and error messages stood out. On a server : Dec 25 07:15:03 mirv-99 rsyncd[26952]: rsync: writefd_unbuffered failed to write 4 bytes [sender]: Broken pipe (32) Dec 25 07:15:03 mirv-99 rsyncd[26952]: rsync error: error in rsync protocol data stream (code 12) at io.c(1122) [sender=2.6.9] On the client : io timeout after 120 seconds -- exiting rsync error: timeout in data send/receive (code 30) at io.c(165) [receiver=2.6.9] rsync: connection unexpectedly closed (65 bytes received so far) [generator] rsync error: error in rsync protocol data stream (code 12) at io.c(453) [generator=2.6.9] I have repeated experiment 3 times. :-(((((
Please show the output of rsync --version It should show something like: Capabilities: 64-bit files, ... If it doesn't, your version of rsync was simply not compiled with support for large files.
Large files work fine on an rsync compiled with a large-file library.
> Please show the output of rsync --version Yes : $ rsync --version rsync version 2.6.9 protocol version 29 Copyright (C) 1996-2006 by Andrew Tridgell, Wayne Davison, and others. <http://rsync.samba.org/> Capabilities: 64-bit files, socketpairs, hard links, symlinks, batchfiles, inplace, IPv6, 64-bit system inums, 64-bit internal inums
> Large files work fine on an rsync compiled with a large-file library. What is "large-file library" ?
I ran into a similar problem trying to backup a >4GB to a truecrypt partition. Truecrypt used FAT32 which doesn't support files larger than 4GB so check your filesystem.