Rsync synchronization problem

[Rudolf Cejka]

Cristian KLEIN wrote (2007/05/10):
> > 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?

It is a question what to test. You are right that I see rsync timeouts
much more, that cvsup timeouts. Maybe you can try to increase --timeout=n
on the client side. I had to set timeout = 15000 on the server, so you can
try to go up to this time on the client side too. I think that you can
switch directly from rsync to cvsup, because cvsup checks all files
physically during first run (first run of cvsup is even worse that
rsync runs, its gain is only with repeated runs). Then it is good idea
to check the repository using cvsupchk for deletion of extra files not
controlled by cvsup.

> > 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.

Good news, I have prepared one SATA 3ware RAID 8506-12 with six 320 GB
disks on the desk. I hope that I would be able to switch to the new RAID
during this weekend, so please do not be surprised,
if ftp-master.cz.freebsd.org will be inaccessible for some time.
Currently, all hosts seem to be up to date and the load of the server
is minimal.

Regards.

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Rudolf Cejka <cejkar at fit.vutbr.cz> http://www.fit.vutbr.cz/~cejkar
Brno University of Technology, Faculty of Information Technology
Bozetechova 2, 612 66  Brno, Czech Republic