Rsync errors

[edie209]

After being introduced to debian a little while ago I am getting more and mor adventurious. At present i am trying to set up directory mirroring using rsync, although i am running into a couple of problems.

I am using the command

rsync --delete -p -r -t -e ssh /var/shares/ ipaddress:/var/shares/mirror/

this runs fine for a little while but then I get an error

No space left on device (28)

but I am trying to copy about 15 gig to a drive with 150 gig free

I also get this error

rsync: writefd_unbuffered failed to write 4092 bytes [generator]: Broken pipe (32) rsync error: error in rsync protocol data stream (code 12) at io.c(1122) [generator=2.6.9]

could someone point me on the way to working this out please

[openhgs]

You are rysncing to a different machine aren't you? rsyncing within a file system is an interesting idea - it will very quickly fill.

[edie209]

Yes Im rsyncing to another linux machine one is a clarkconnect (CentOS Linux 4) machine that has all my photos and music and I was trying to mirror the directory on the other linux machine whuch is a debian etch machine. I'm doing this at home first so that I can get my head around it before I attempt this at school

[Geoff]

Are you sure there is room? Try the following. On the target machine run 'df -h'. On the other machine, run 'du -hs /var/shares/'.

[edie209]

Geoff you have hit the nail my space is on hda3 NOT hda1, but how do i place my share mirror on hda3, I told you I'm still learning linux ops:

thanks


du -h gives a result of

Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/hda1 9.2G 9.2G 0 100% /
tmpfs 252M 0 252M 0% /lib/init/rw
udev 10M 52K 10M 1% /dev
tmpfs 252M 0 252M 0% /dev/shm
/dev/hda3 141G 188M 134G 1% /srv



du -hs /var/shares/' gives a result of 6.3g /var/shares

[CyberNerd]

change the path in /etc/rsyncd.conf on the server to point to somewhere on /srv and adjust your rsync command on the client accordingly

[edie209]

Got it cheers I was having a problem with access to hda3 not physically just could not understand how to get there via the path now I have just had a look at the drive config on the debian machine via webmin and I now can see how to get there.

Wonderful thing learning you make so many silly mistakes along the way

[edie209]

Its all working now thanks for that,
now I'm going to try and set it up so that it checks every x hours for differances

[edie209]

I have found a really good tutorial on mirroring with Rsync and thought it may be of use to others as it covers shared keys too. Take a look and see what you think

Rsync Tutorial