I want to rsync a folder from one server to another.
But rsync synchronization fails:
$ rsync -zr --compress-level=9 --delete /var/www/mywebsite/current/web/js login@192.168.1.4:/srv/data2_http
rsync: write failed on "/srv/data2_http/js/8814c77.js": No space left on device (28)
rsync error: error in file IO (code 11) at receiver.c(322) [receiver=3.0.9]
rsync: connection unexpectedly closed (21747 bytes received so far) [sender]
rsync error: error in rsync protocol data stream (code 12) at io.c(605) [sender=3.0.9]
But I have enough space !
$ du -h /var/www/mywebsite/current/web/js
2.4M /var/www/mywebsite/current/web/js
df -h
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
rootfs 5.0G 3.0G 1.8G 64% /
/dev/root 5.0G 3.0G 1.8G 64% /
devtmpfs 2.0G 0 2.0G 0% /dev
tmpfs 395M 132K 395M 1% /run
tmpfs 5.0M 0 5.0M 0% /run/lock
tmpfs 24K 16K 8.0K 67% /var/gandi
tmpfs 24K 16K 8.0K 67% /var/gandi
tmpfs 789M 0 789M 0% /run/shm
/dev/xvdb 202G 168G 25G 88% /srv/data2_http
df -i
Filesystem Inodes IUsed IFree IUse% Mounted on
rootfs 327680 67666 260014 21% /
/dev/root 327680 67666 260014 21% /
devtmpfs 504593 319 504274 1% /dev
tmpfs 504848 224 504624 1% /run
tmpfs 504848 2 504846 1% /run/lock
tmpfs 504848 5 504843 1% /var/gandi
tmpfs 504848 5 504843 1% /var/gandi
tmpfs 504848 2 504846 1% /run/shm
/dev/xvdb 13434880 2152940 11281940 17% /srv/data2_http
Best Answer
I had the same issue, the destination directory had enough space but I'd get "No space left on device". Turns out rsync copies the file to somewhere else first, then moves it to the destination directory. To change this behavior, use
--inplace.According to https://download.samba.org/pub/rsync/rsync.html "This option changes how rsync transfers a file when its data needs to be updated: instead of the default method of creating a new copy of the file and moving it into place when it is complete, rsync instead writes the updated data directly to the destination file."