Re: Split a Replica Job Into Two

Greg Troxel <[email protected]> Wed, 17 Apr 2024 11:23:59 -0400
Newsgroups gmane.network.unison.general
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Brian Spraker <[email protected]> writes:

> Thank you for your reply Greg.

You appear to be sending mail with a yahoo from address, from gmail.
yahoo says that is not allowed (DMARC) and thus your mail is filed as
spam.  Probably you should fix that.

> OS is Ubuntu Linux 20.04.6.
> Version of Unison is 2.40.102
> File system type is ext4

Wow.  2.40 is beyond ancient.  Please udpate to the latest release, or
newer from git.

> Servers are separated with different Internet connections and they 
> replicate through ssh.  I have a cron script that calls the command every 
> five minutes so they will replicate any changes in a timely manner.

I hope you avoid calling it again if the previous has not finished.

> As noted, haven't had any issue with the archive files getting corrupt for 
> years.. unless a server lost power during a replication process.  But in 
> the last two months, I've had corrupt archive files at least four times now.

That suggests hardware problems.

> Today's archive error was:
>
> Fatal error: Server: Corrupted archive: the files <FILE1> and <FILE2> are 
> not correctely ordered in directory <PATH>

but that, not so much.


Perhaps someone has advice other than update, but I don't and won't - so
much has been fixed and changed that it does not make any sense to be
running 2.40.

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