[GRLUG] rsync Weirdness

[Michael Mol]

On Mon, May 17, 2010 at 4:42 PM, L. V. Lammert <lvl at omnitec.net> wrote:
> OK, .. here's a good one for you guys:
>
> We run rsnapshot jobs on all our servers, .. and they have been running
> formany years.
>
> Trying to add a new server to the mix, and the rsync jobs are throwing
> some STRANGE errors, .. trying to do them manually creates the same
> problem, AS DOES A MANUAL rsync I'm trying to do on two complete different
> machines!
>
> The rysnc job starts, receives the file listing, and then throws messages
> like:
>
> file has vanished: "/proc/23522/task/23522/cwd"
> file has vanished: "/proc/23522/task/23522/root"
> file has vanished: "/proc/23522/task/23522/exe"
> file has vanished: "/proc/22401/cwd"
> file has vanished: "/proc/22401/root"
> file has vanished: "/proc/22401/exe"
> file has vanished: "/proc/22401/task/22401/cwd"
> file has vanished: "/proc/22401/task/22401/root"
>
> Where /proc is not even in the directories being backed up! What might
> cause the exact same problem on two totally separate machine environments?
> (One pair is NTFS on Ubunu 10.4 -> OpenBSD 4.5, and the other is Debian ->
> CentOS 5.4.)

1) Do the machines get updated regularly?
2) What are the exact versions of rsync on all the machines involved?
3) Which versions of rsync are on machines that are working, versus
which versions of rsync are on machines that aren't?


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