[sllug-members]: rsync errors

[Jared Bernard]

On Wed, 23 Dec 2009, Jeff Schroeder wrote:

>> If some other method of copying the problem files into place succeeds,
>> then you'll know the issue is something rsync is doing.  I'm
>> wondering if it might not be a more fundamental issue, though.
>
> I concur.  When I saw the errors my first thought was filesystem
> corruption.  Try to copy the files locally and see if it works, or even
> use scp so it's a remote copy similar to what rsync is doing.  If
> either of these work, then rsync is probably the culprit.  If not, it's
> the filesystem.
>
> You could also delete the local file and re-rsync, to see if it copies
> okay.  The rationale here is that by deleting the file and copying
> again, you're most likely using other blocks on the filesystem.  If
> that works, again it points to a filesystem problem in the blocks used
> by the original file.
>
> HTH,
> Jeff

So, I used cp to the backup directory and received a similar error. I
then used cp to copy the original to another directory on the same partition 
which worked.

I guess it's a filesystem issue then. If this is the case, how do I go about
repairing the filesystem?

Jared

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