On Thu, 2005-12-22 at 20:27 +0000, Jon Peatfield wrote: > On Thu, 22 Dec 2005, Connie Sieh wrote: > > > Jon, > > > > It was indeed set at 4, increased it . > > > > Thanks for reporting this issue. > > Great. > > A few mins ago I switched to try the > rsync://www.mirrorservice.org/sites/ftp.scientificlinux.org/linux/scientific/ > mirror (it notionally being closer I thought it might be useful), but > fetching from it resulted in it deleting a bunch of files (.rpmmacros etc) > and updating rather a lot of files. I killed it after 124 of them had > been changed: Always, always run a manual rsync with -n first, or in a script when you are testing it. And --max-delete=2 (or another small integer) helps prevent it going wild and eating all of your files.