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Date: Wed, 11 Jul 2001 09:15:22 +0200
To: Russell Cattelan <cattelan@thebarn.com>, Shanker Balan <shanu@exocore.com>
From: Seth Mos <knuffie@xs4all.nl>
Subject: Re: FAQ: How do i use rsync?
Cc: Linux-XFS <linux-xfs@oss.sgi.com>
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At 00:38 11-7-2001 -0500, Russell Cattelan wrote:
>Shanker Balan wrote:
>
> > Hello:
> >
> > Shanker Balan wrote,
> > > I hope that the rsync procedure will be added to the FAQ!
> >
> > Oh, just runing "rsync oss.sgi.com::xfsftp" will give me a listing.
> >
> > But i have a new prblem now -
> >
> > $ rsync -avuz 
> oss.sgi.com::xfsftp/Release-1.0.1/installer/RH7.1-SGI-XFS-1.0.1.iso 
> RH7.1-SGI-XFS-1.0.iso
> > receiving file list ... done
> > RH7.1-SGI-XFS-1.0.iso
> > inflate returned -3 (0 bytes)
> > unexpected EOF in read_timeout
> >
> > Is this a firewall issue?
> >
>
>Try dropping the -z (compression) and see what you get...
>
>That is and odd error... maybe you should upgrade your rsync?

rsync does not like compression in this case. Same error over here.
Local copy with compression does seem to work.

rsync version 2.4.6  protocol version 24
The standard included rsync with RH 7.1

Cheers

--
Seth
Every program has two purposes one for which
it was written and another for which it wasn't
I use the last kind.