[CentOS] nightly rsync has started to throw errors

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