[CentOS] rsync problem
Yiorgos Stamoulis
yiorgos-lists at stamoulis.eu
Wed Nov 14 22:06:09 UTC 2007
Scott Moseman wrote:
> I have a simple script that sends one file to two locations on the
> same destination server. Here's the code:
>
> DEST="remotehost"
> SRC="/home/boss/application.conf"
> DST1="/home/user1/application.conf"
> DST2="/home/user2/application.conf"
> RSYNC1=`rsync -caW -e ssh $SRC $DEST:$DST1`
> RSYNC2=`rsync -caW -e ssh $SRC $DEST:$DST2`
>
> This runs every 5 minutes. What I'm seeing is the first location
> occasionally gets a *partial* file, but the second location never has
> a problem. There does not appear to be any obvious correlation to why
> this would be happening. I have never witnessed the problem when
> running the script by hand to try and duplicate, witness any error
> output, etc.
>
> Any idea how to troubleshoot? Or how I can get rsync to verify the
> file has been transferred without error? A more reliable alternative
> than using rsync for this situation?
>
> Thanks,
> Scott
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Scott,
also, instead of running rsync twice between local & remote host, you
may want to run it once between local & remote and once between the two
remote host locations.
Or even just do a ssh $DEST cp $DST1 $DST2 as a conf file will be small
anyway.
Yiorgos
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