Re: server crashing

[Matthias Scheler <tron%zhadum.org.uk@localhost>]

On Mon, Aug 22, 2011 at 08:49:15PM -0500, Al - Image Hosting Services wrote:
> I have NFSD running on one system and then I mounted /usr/web on the
> other. I then run rsync -auv --delete /usr/web/* /backup/web
> 
> The system running rsync works fine.

Using "rsync" over NFS is usually a bad idea. It would be much better
to run it like this:

        rsync -auvz --delete /usr/web/* <remotehost>:/usr/web

This will use SSH as the transport for "rsync".

> The server running NFSD crashes.

That sounds a lot like PR kern/45093. Please see my other e-mail.

        Kind regards

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Matthias Scheler                                  http://zhadum.org.uk/