[mirror-admin] Large amounts of content deleted during rsync run

[HEAnet Mirror Admin]

Hi Stephen,

On Wed, 17 Apr 2013 09:43:27 -0600
Stephen John Smoogen <smooge at gmail.com> wrote:

> We have seen a previous report of this happening, but have not pinned
> down any reason for it. Could you give me the following information:
> 
> 1) The IP address you rsync from

193.1.219.88

> 2) The date and time that this happened on

Thu Apr 11, between 18:22:01 and 21:42:09 (UTC). The rsync session
simply terminated at 21:42:09, no content was transferred as far as I
can see, but 870,424 files were deleted.

> 3) The version of rsync you are using.

$ rsync --version
rsync  version 3.0.4  protocol version 30
.. snip ..
Capabilities:
    64-bit files, 64-bit inums, 64-bit timestamps, 64-bit long ints,
    socketpairs, hardlinks, symlinks, IPv6, batchfiles, inplace,
    append, ACLs, xattrs, iconv, symtimes

rg

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