Thanks for the kudos... love my handle - I use it quite a bit...
To the business...
1] Thanks for the suggestion - I'll alter the backup job tonight. The backup has failed twice now - latest log dump:
-------- BEGIN BACKUP 2009/12/14 14:30:31 array1/VMBAK -> DRBAK@array1/Backups --------
building file list ...
56 files to consider
created directory /_backups
./
VMBAK/
VMBAK/.DS_Store
VMBAK/SyncToy_e06a4fee-4914-4023-8cae-a76247c9f768.dat
VMBAK/B2B/
VMBAK/B2B/.DS_Store
VMBAK/B2B/Backup B2B.vbk
rsync: writefd_unbuffered failed to write 6727 bytes [sender]: Connection reset by peer (104)
rsync error: received SIGINT, SIGTERM, or SIGHUP (code 20) at rsync.c(242) [generator=2.6.8]
rsync: connection unexpectedly closed (110 bytes received so far) [sender]
rsync error: error in rsync protocol data stream (code 12) at io.c(463) [sender=2.6.8]
-------- END BACKUP 2009/12/14 17:15:17 array1/VMBAK -> DRBAK@array1/Backups --------
I'm not yet literate with rsync error messages or debugging - perhaps you can help me decipher the error and correct it. I'm thinking this may have to do with the ethernet frame size causing disconnects between the two Linkstations. They are both connected directly to a Cisco 4506 with no special configs - so there should be an issue regardless of the frame sizes, but maybe you have a suggestion. My switch does support jumbo frames.
2a] Hmmm... ok - I found the logs, obviously. The backup of another Linkstation is one of the features on the box - shouldn't it get some resources to be really usable?
2b] Thanks - haven't seen the request yet - I'll check the spam filter today.
3] I'm going to do some rsync studying.
4] See 2a.
Thanks fo rthe quick response - hopefully we can get to the bottom of the errors I'm seeing - and I'll do my part to get the feature request done.
-RootDude