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On Fri, 28 May 2004 12:10:28 +0100, 
Mark Watts <m.watts@eris.qinetiq.com> wrote:
>Not aborts, more like this every so often:
>
>
>rsync: connection unexpectedly closed (598189175 bytes read so far)
>rsync error: error in rsync protocol data stream (code 12) at io.c(189)
>rsync: writefd_unbuffered failed to write 4092 bytes: phase "unknown": Broken
>pipe
>rsync error: error in rsync protocol data stream (code 12) at io.c(666)

One end of the link (or somewhere in between) dropped the connection.

>rsync -av --stats --progress --bwlimit=2000 \ 
>rsync://sunsite.uio.no/Mandrakelinux .

For big transfers, always use --partial.  Restarting the transfer will
pick up where it left off.  Also use --delete-after if you use
--delete, so you do not delete old files until all the new files are
down.