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RSync Backup Failed...Why?
I'm having trouble getting a backup job to run to completion. I've run it twice so far and it has failed both times, sadly I didn't record the error message for the first one, but this time I got thi...
Well, the news is finally good! :smileyhappy:
I ran a scrub on the main NAS (which took ages!) and waited for the backup jobs to run on Sunday night. They all ran (incrementally) to completion and I double-checked the folders using FreeFileSync and they are indeed identical.
I call that a win.
Thanks everyone for thier help, it's much appreciated :smileyhappy:
daKlone wrote:
Backup Destination: [Videos]//
Normally would be just one / here, not two. That is, share: Videos in the name field with path blank.
But the backup ran for 29 hours before failing, correct? So it is unlikely to be a syntax error, that would fail right away.
Did it run about the same amount of time on the first backup run? I'm wondering if it failed on the same file.
I tend to agree with StephenB - if there were a command syntax error then the backup wouldn't have run at all. I will double-check it though.
It did fail at about the same duration when I tried to run it the first time, so it is possible that the same file has "killed" it.
I had another thought along those lines. Is there a limit on the number of files that can be sync'd, or a limit on the size of an individual file?
That folder contains a lot of files, and one or two are really big (~40GB) so it is possible that either a) there are too many files to enumerate (unlikely), or b) it bombs out when it hits the first really big file.
What do you think?
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