[SOLVED] rsync: failed to set times

gnac · Last edited by gnac on Thu Jan 10, 2008 9:05 pm; edited 1 time in total

My nightly backups using rsync have started giving me this error on numerous files:

andreas_st · Posted: Wed Jan 09, 2008 9:47 am Post subject:

What kind of file system are you using on the rsync target?
Are the files that give you the error messages copied or are they skipped?

veal · n00b Joined: 08 May 2003 Posts: 47

i have the same errors, with:
2.6.18-gentoo-r3
rsync-2.6.9-r5
glibc-2.6.1
filesystem is reiserfs.

i quickly searched and read through this thread: http://www.mail-archive.com/jfs-discussion@lists.sourceforge.net/msg00995.html
from which i conclude this would go away with a kernel upgrade.

my research on my emerges:

errors first arose dec 15th (where previous backup on 8th was successfull).

Wed Sep 13 02:28:26 2006 >>> sys-libs/glibc-2.4-r3
Sun Sep 2 17:41:11 2007 >>> net-misc/rsync-2.6.9-r3
Wed Aug 8 12:34:28 2007 >>> sys-libs/glibc-2.5-r4
Wed Nov 21 17:25:56 2007 >>> sys-libs/glibc-2.6.1
Fri Nov 23 01:04:13 2007 >>> sys-libs/glibc-2.6.1
BACKUP SUCCESS
Sun Dec 9 23:49:46 2007 >>> net-misc/rsync-2.6.9-r5
BACUP ERROR

so i guess the culprit is 2.6.18-gentoo-r3 +glibc-2.6.1 +rsync-2.6.9
?

gnac · Posted: Thu Jan 10, 2008 9:03 pm Post subject:

Upgrading to 2.6.23-gentoo-r3 appears to have solved the problem for me.

sys-kernel/gentoo-sources-2.6.23-r3
sys-libs/glibc-2.2
net-misc/rsync-2.6.9-r5
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