Rsync synchronization problem

[Cristian KLEIN]

Rudolf Cejka wrote:
> Cristian KLEIN wrote (2007/04/27):
>> I keep getting these errors when synchronizing my FreeBSD mirror with
>> rsync. I usually connect to ftp-master.cz.freebsd.org, but this also
>> happend when I syncronize from ftp.freebsd.cz.
> 
> Hello, I had recurring problems with one disk in RAID-5 on
> ftp-master.cz.freebsd.org. Today I replaced it with another disk
> (using bigger WD2000 instead of WD1200, because I did not have spare
> WD1200), currently there is rebuilded 33 % and it seems that RAID
> would behave somewhat better and faster since now.
> 
> However, if you have timeouts from both ftp-master.cz.freebsd.org and
> ftp.freebsd.cz, it is weird and I would expect that there is some
> connectivity problem outside Czech region.

Is there any way we could test this? I can't remember having this
problem while using cvsup. Should I switch to cvsup. Is there a way to
do this switch while keeping the currently downloaded archive?

> 
> Just to know, there is currently 3ware PATA with 6 x 120 GB and
> I have plans to switch to 3ware SATA controller freed from another
> server with 4 x 500 GB WD RE2 new disks in the future.
>