There is an rsync going on the system which seems to be taking a very long time to complete

Looks like the quick-mirror-script has a problem and thinks nothing has been updated in 7 for a while.

I have forced an rsync on download-ib01 for just /pub/epel/ since the fast script is trying to crawl /pub/alt and taking 8 hours to complete.

I have forced an update, please try again.

Looks good. Thanks!

I am considering this 'patched' at this moment. I do not know why fast-mirror was broken for 7, but this is similar to a report for mirrors.kernel.org where 7 was missing similar files. Someone needs to try and fix the problem in the script.

To get an idea of when this happened.
From: alibaba mirror

Hello:
We rsync epel mirror from rsync://download-ib01.fedoraproject.org/ and we find that epel7_x86_64 repodata was lost all primary gz,xml file on 2020-05-04 06:00-12:00 and this worries us.
What's the reason for the problem and can we avoid such problems.
Thanks.

I'm at a loss as to what could possibly be broken in the script. It's not changed for quite some time. We are in freeze, so we didn't change anything on our end.

I don't think we have any logs that would help...

We will close this one, if it happens again we can try and debug it and please re-open if you see this again