On Wed, Jan 11, 2006 at 11:31:54AM +0000, Chris Green wrote:
On Wed, Jan 11, 2006 at 11:23:39AM +0000, Jenny Hopkins wrote:
On 11/01/06, Chris Green chris@areti.co.uk wrote:
I'm trying to use rsync to upload a mailbox archive from my home system to the system that I usually use for handling my mail.
I'm already successfully using rsync in the opposite direction.
What happens is that rsync gets part of the way through the transfer (it does about 3.9Mb out of 75Mb) and then it just hangs. I've looked at the files it has transferred and the point at which it has stopped and can see no oddities in permissions or anything like that.
Has anyone got any ideas what might be going wrong?
I don't suppose it is hanging on a large compressed file? I had rsync completely hang when it got to a large.iso of 4G or so before.
None of the files is particularly big, I think the biggest is just one or two megabytes.
When run from the command line with the --progress parameter it seems to be getting a little bit further each time.
Sorry about this saga!
I've tried scp and ftp now as well, they all seem to hang in a similar way when transferring 'large' files, that's files of a few MB. The biggest file I'm trying to copy is about 14MB.
Nothing else seems to break, the ADSL continues to function perfectly.
The only thing I can think of (for this, not the cron driven one) is an odd interaction between ssh and the file transfer because I'm connecting *into* my system using ssh from a remote system and then running the transfer out from the ssh command prompt. I'll try again this evening when I get home using a local terminal window.