Ray Leventhal wrote: > Hi all, > > I perform a nightly snapshot of /home to a USB attached drive scheduled > via cron. The system is CentOS 5.2 and only gets attached to the > internet periodically for updates, otherwise serves as a samba server to > about 20 Windows clients. > > The rsync command being used is: > rsync -av --delete /home/ /media/bkup320G/ > and has been working well until a few days ago. > > Starting with a few days ago, my nightly rsync/cron emails included some > errors as shown here: > > rsync: mkstemp > "/media/bkup320G/cprcvs/c/Projects/WindowApps/DLL/HMRControlDLL/.CMDSettingsDialog.cpp,v.I5QnaM" > failed: Read-only file system (30) > rsync: failed to set times on > "/media/bkup320G/cprcvs/c/Projects/WindowApps/DLL/PSIControlDLL": > Read-only file system (30) > Getting any IO errors in the kernel log? Maybe the USB disk is going offline occasionally. -- tkb