Hi Martin,
Could you let me know what time this happened, and what machine is doing the 
transfer.
It's actually much easier for us to trace ftp transactions than rsync, so maybe 
this will give us a glimpse into what is happening better than tracking down 
DESY's rsync.

Troy

Bly, MJ (Martin) wrote:
> I am seeing this too, on a long-standing mirror using lftp direct from
> ftp.scientificlinux.org.  Clobbered some installations I was doing of
> our copy on Sunday - we lost some of the SL4.4 i386 base stuff, mostly
> files starting 'o'  (openssl, openoffice, openssh, ... list on request).
> A re-sync of the mirror brought the files back.
> 
>         Martin.
> --
> Martin Bly
> RAL Tier1 Fabric Team
> 
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: [log in to unmask]
>> [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On
>> Behalf Of Kai Leffhalm
>> Sent: 06 December 2007 11:38
>> To: [log in to unmask]
>> Subject: Problem with Mirroring
>>
>> Hi,
>> I am new here and have one problem when mirroring the repositories:
>>   sometimes the packages disappear and reappear after some
>> time. I was told that this is a problem
>> with the fileserver. Now there are some old packages, which
>> seems to be deleted on purpose and some
>> seems to be reorganized.
>>
>> Is there any possibility to see, which files would be deleted
>> on purpose and which are just
>> temporarily deleted?
>>
>> Cheers
>> Kai Leffhalm
>>
>> Examples:
>> SL5.1: (Files are moved to different directory)
>> x86_64/SL/firefox-1.5.0.12-7.el5.i386.rpm
>> x86_64/SL/firefox-1.5.0.12-7.el5.x86_64.rpm
>> x86_64/SL/firefox-devel-1.5.0.12-7.el5.i386.rpm
>> x86_64/SL/firefox-devel-1.5.0.12-7.el5.x86_64.rpm
>> deleting x86_64/updates/security/firefox-1.5.0.12-7.el5.x86_64.rpm
>> deleting x86_64/updates/security/firefox-1.5.0.12-7.el5.i386.rpm
>> deleting
>> x86_64/updates/security/firefox-devel-1.5.0.12-7.el5.x86_64.rpm
>> deleting x86_64/updates/security/firefox-devel-1.5.0.12-7.el5.i386.rpm
>>
>>
>> SL4.4: (Old and current packages are deleted)
>> deleting i386/errata/SL/RPMS/postgresql-libs-7.4.17-1.RHEL4.1.i386.rpm
>> deleting i386/errata/SL/RPMS/postgresql-jdbc-7.4.17-1.RHEL4.1.i386.rpm
>> deleting i386/errata/SL/RPMS/openssh-server-3.9p1-8.RHEL4.20.i386.rpm
>> deleting i386/errata/SL/RPMS/openssh-clients-3.9p1-8.RHEL4.20.i386.rpm
>>


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