I've run the following command: rsync -naHe "/usr/bin/ssh -i /root/.ssh/id_dsa_gateway" --compress-level=9 --stats Server1-*-2009-10-* REMOTE:/backup/ After a wile it gives me this and aborts: rsync: stat "/path/directory/!path with spaces/FILE.EXT" failed: No such file or directory (2) message repeated 20 to 50 times Assertion failed: (CVAL(node->data, 0) == 0), function finish_hard_link, file hlink.c, line 533. rsync: stat "/path/directory/!path with spaces/FILE.EXT" failed: No such file or directory (2) message repeated about 5 times. rsync error: unexplained error (code 134) at io.c(1143) [sender=3.0.6] # rsync --version rsync version 3.0.6 protocol version 30 Copyright (C) 1996-2009 by Andrew Tridgell, Wayne Davison, and others. Web site: http://rsync.samba.org/ Capabilities: 64-bit files, 32-bit inums, 32-bit timestamps, 64-bit long ints, socketpairs, hardlinks, symlinks, IPv6, batchfiles, inplace, append, ACLs, xattrs, no iconv, symtimes
Rsync 3.0.7 has this fix which is probably the cause of all the "No such file or directory" errors: - Avoid an error when --dry-run was trying to stat a prior hard-link file that hasn't really been created. The assertion failure is something I haven't yet managed to reproduce. I have added more descriptive messages into the code for 3.0.8 that may help to narrow down what is happening.
I'm assuming that this is fixed.