I’ve tested this and it seems that there is a still a bug in rsync (rsync version 3.1.2 protocol version 31). I used a 1GB archive filesytem to allow for an out of space test case. Not sure of the actual cause as it seems to work a few times; however, it then fails leaving a truncated file and returning a success code. Example: 00000001000000590000003E - failed 4 fimes and on the fifth try rsync returned success and left a truncated file. When there is actually no space left; rsync fails immidately and never returns a success code; i.e. 00000001000000590000003F. When freeing up space; archive resumes again. It seems that if rsync is already syncing when the files system fills up then there is a high risk the bug will occur; i.e. 000000010000005A00000001 is also truncated and with a rsync success code. Since rsync is returning success on a failed sync; even the "-c" option will not help here. Archive Script critical code: OUTPUT=$(rsync -ac $XLOGFILE $ARCH_SERVER:$ARCH_DIR/$WALFILE) if [ $? == 0 ]; then STS=0 echo "Success: $WALFILE" >> /tmp/waltest.log else echo "Failed: $WALFILE" >> /tmp/waltest.log fi exit $STS Archive Directory (Note: useing 64MB WALs): [postgres@hades ~/arch/dbc1/wal]$ ls -al total 1044351 drwxr-xr-x 2 postgres postgres 57 Feb 28 19:46 . drwxr-xr-x 3 postgres postgres 3 Feb 28 17:33 .. -rw------- 1 postgres postgres 67108864 Feb 28 17:33 00000001000000590000000B -rw------- 1 postgres postgres 67108864 Feb 28 17:33 00000001000000590000000C -rw------- 1 postgres postgres 67108864 Feb 28 17:33 00000001000000590000000D -rw------- 1 postgres postgres 67108864 Feb 28 17:33 00000001000000590000000E -rw------- 1 postgres postgres 67108864 Feb 28 17:33 00000001000000590000000F -rw------- 1 postgres postgres 67108864 Feb 28 17:33 000000010000005900000010 -rw------- 1 postgres postgres 67108864 Feb 28 17:33 000000010000005900000011 -rw------- 1 postgres postgres 67108864 Feb 28 17:33 000000010000005900000012 -rw------- 1 postgres postgres 67108864 Feb 28 17:33 000000010000005900000013 -rw------- 1 postgres postgres 67108864 Feb 28 17:33 000000010000005900000014 -rw------- 1 postgres postgres 67108864 Feb 28 17:33 000000010000005900000015 -rw------- 1 postgres postgres 67108864 Feb 28 17:33 000000010000005900000016 -rw------- 1 postgres postgres 67108864 Feb 28 17:33 000000010000005900000017 -rw------- 1 postgres postgres 67108864 Feb 28 17:33 000000010000005900000018 -rw------- 1 postgres postgres 67108864 Feb 28 17:33 000000010000005900000019 -rw------- 1 postgres postgres 67108864 Feb 28 17:33 00000001000000590000001A -rw------- 1 postgres postgres 67108864 Feb 28 17:33 00000001000000590000001B -rw------- 1 postgres postgres 67108864 Feb 28 17:33 00000001000000590000001C -rw------- 1 postgres postgres 67108864 Feb 28 17:33 00000001000000590000001D -rw------- 1 postgres postgres 67108864 Feb 28 17:33 00000001000000590000001E -rw------- 1 postgres postgres 67108864 Feb 28 17:33 00000001000000590000001F -rw------- 1 postgres postgres 67108864 Feb 28 17:33 000000010000005900000020 -rw------- 1 postgres postgres 67108864 Feb 28 17:33 000000010000005900000021 -rw------- 1 postgres postgres 67108864 Feb 28 17:33 000000010000005900000022 -rw------- 1 postgres postgres 67108864 Feb 28 17:33 000000010000005900000023 -rw------- 1 postgres postgres 67108864 Feb 28 17:33 000000010000005900000024 -rw------- 1 postgres postgres 67108864 Feb 28 17:33 000000010000005900000025 -rw------- 1 postgres postgres 67108864 Feb 28 17:33 000000010000005900000026 -rw------- 1 postgres postgres 67108864 Feb 28 17:33 000000010000005900000027 -rw------- 1 postgres postgres 67108864 Feb 28 17:33 000000010000005900000028 -rw------- 1 postgres postgres 67108864 Feb 28 17:33 000000010000005900000029 -rw------- 1 postgres postgres 67108864 Feb 28 17:33 00000001000000590000002A -rw------- 1 postgres postgres 67108864 Feb 28 17:33 00000001000000590000002B -rw------- 1 postgres postgres 67108864 Feb 28 17:33 00000001000000590000002C -rw------- 1 postgres postgres 67108864 Feb 28 17:33 00000001000000590000002D -rw------- 1 postgres postgres 67108864 Feb 28 17:33 00000001000000590000002E -rw------- 1 postgres postgres 67108864 Feb 28 17:33 00000001000000590000002F -rw------- 1 postgres postgres 67108864 Feb 28 17:33 000000010000005900000030 -rw------- 1 postgres postgres 67108864 Feb 28 17:33 000000010000005900000031 -rw------- 1 postgres postgres 67108864 Feb 28 17:33 000000010000005900000032 -rw------- 1 postgres postgres 67108864 Feb 28 17:33 000000010000005900000033 -rw------- 1 postgres postgres 67108864 Feb 28 17:33 000000010000005900000034 -rw------- 1 postgres postgres 67108864 Feb 28 17:33 000000010000005900000035 -rw------- 1 postgres postgres 67108864 Feb 28 17:33 000000010000005900000036 -rw------- 1 postgres postgres 67108864 Feb 28 17:33 000000010000005900000037 -rw------- 1 postgres postgres 67108864 Feb 28 17:33 000000010000005900000038 -rw------- 1 postgres postgres 67108864 Feb 28 17:33 000000010000005900000039 -rw------- 1 postgres postgres 67108864 Feb 28 17:33 00000001000000590000003A -rw------- 1 postgres postgres 67108864 Feb 28 17:33 00000001000000590000003B -rw------- 1 postgres postgres 67108864 Feb 28 17:33 00000001000000590000003C -rw------- 1 postgres postgres 67108864 Feb 28 17:33 00000001000000590000003D -rw------- 1 postgres postgres 3670016 Feb 28 17:33 00000001000000590000003E -rw------- 1 postgres postgres 67108864 Feb 28 17:33 00000001000000590000003F -rw------- 1 postgres postgres 67108864 Feb 28 17:33 000000010000005A00000000 -rw------- 1 postgres postgres 12713984 Feb 28 17:33 000000010000005A00000001 Success/Failure Log: [postgres@hades ~/arch/dbc1/wal]$ cat /tmp/waltest.log Success: 000000010000005900000008 Success: 000000010000005900000009 Success: 00000001000000590000000A Success: 00000001000000590000000B Success: 00000001000000590000000C Success: 00000001000000590000000D Success: 00000001000000590000000E Success: 00000001000000590000000F Success: 000000010000005900000010 Success: 000000010000005900000011 Success: 000000010000005900000012 Success: 000000010000005900000013 Success: 000000010000005900000014 Success: 000000010000005900000015 Success: 000000010000005900000016 Success: 000000010000005900000017 Success: 000000010000005900000018 Success: 000000010000005900000019 Success: 00000001000000590000001A Success: 00000001000000590000001B Success: 00000001000000590000001C Success: 00000001000000590000001D Success: 00000001000000590000001E Success: 00000001000000590000001F Success: 000000010000005900000020 Success: 000000010000005900000021 Success: 000000010000005900000022 Success: 000000010000005900000023 Success: 000000010000005900000024 Success: 000000010000005900000025 Success: 000000010000005900000026 Success: 000000010000005900000027 Success: 000000010000005900000028 Success: 000000010000005900000029 Success: 00000001000000590000002A Success: 00000001000000590000002B Success: 00000001000000590000002C Success: 00000001000000590000002D Success: 00000001000000590000002E Success: 00000001000000590000002F Success: 000000010000005900000030 Success: 000000010000005900000031 Success: 000000010000005900000032 Success: 000000010000005900000033 Success: 000000010000005900000034 Success: 000000010000005900000035 Success: 000000010000005900000036 Success: 000000010000005900000037 Success: 000000010000005900000038 Success: 000000010000005900000039 Success: 00000001000000590000003A Success: 00000001000000590000003B Success: 00000001000000590000003C Success: 00000001000000590000003D Failed: 00000001000000590000003E Failed: 00000001000000590000003E Failed: 00000001000000590000003E Failed: 00000001000000590000003E Success: 00000001000000590000003E Failed: 00000001000000590000003F Failed: 00000001000000590000003F Failed: 00000001000000590000003F Failed: 00000001000000590000003F Failed: 00000001000000590000003F Failed: 00000001000000590000003F Failed: 00000001000000590000003F Failed: 00000001000000590000003F Failed: 00000001000000590000003F Failed: 00000001000000590000003F Failed: 00000001000000590000003F Failed: 00000001000000590000003F Failed: 00000001000000590000003F Failed: 00000001000000590000003F Failed: 00000001000000590000003F Failed: 00000001000000590000003F Failed: 00000001000000590000003F Failed: 00000001000000590000003F Success: 00000001000000590000003F Success: 000000010000005A00000000 Failed: 000000010000005A00000001 Failed: 000000010000005A00000001 Failed: 000000010000005A00000001 Failed: 000000010000005A00000001 Failed: 000000010000005A00000001 Failed: 000000010000005A00000001 Failed: 000000010000005A00000001 Success: 000000010000005A00000001 Failed: 000000010000005A00000002 Failed: 000000010000005A00000002 Failed: 000000010000005A00000002 Failed: 000000010000005A00000002 Failed: 000000010000005A00000002 Failed: 000000010000005A00000002 Failed: 000000010000005A00000002 Failed: 000000010000005A00000002 Failed: 000000010000005A00000002
