[lbackup-discussion] General rsync errors

[henri]

> Yes, I have quite a few servers, and quite a few things going on. If I had to make a huge generalization, my basic setup is that each machine has it's own internal RAID mirror.  Basic two drives, one protecting the other.
> 
> This is not backup though, this is for drives that misbehave.  I have scripts that watch raid and smart status and keep me up to date on what is going on with the mirror.

Sometimes a drive may have problems reading or writing files even if the S.M.R.T status for the disk is verified as being okay.