On Wed, Jan 11, 2006 at 11:13:44AM +0000, Chris Green wrote:
Has anyone got any ideas what might be going wrong?
Looking at my system now where I ran the above command it seems to have lost the connection to halkidiki.areti.com completely. Although the command still appears to be running there's no rsync process or even an associated shell process. It's as if there's some sort of inactivity timeout that can't see the rsync transfer running and it's pulled the plug.
It's very peculiar! I added a --progress parameter to the rsync command as that should keep the terminal alive.
It gets to around the same place in the copying process and then rapidly slows down and grinds to a halt half way through copying a file. Currently it's stuck at 18% of a largish file.
I don't think it's a tiemout as the slowing down and grinding to a halt is pretty rapid, it happens within a minute or so I would guess.
Once it's happened I have to kill the terminal window where it's running, nothing else seems to retrieve control.