I recently noticed that a file I thought I had on one of my repositories was missing, so I decided to get it: chymera@clusterhost ~/ni_data/ofM.dr $ git annex get 20151226_112356_4012_1_7/2/pulseprogram get 20151226_112356_4012_1_7/2/pulseprogram (from data0...) git-annex-shell: failed to read git config of git repository in zenhost on /run/media/chymera/data0/ni_data; perhaps this repository is not set up correctly or has moved rsync: connection unexpectedly closed (0 bytes received so far) [Receiver] rsync error: error in rsync protocol data stream (code 12) at io.c(226) [Receiver=3.1.3] rsync failed -- run git annex again to resume file transfer (from data1...) git-annex-shell: failed to read git config of git repository in zenhost on /run/media/chymera/data1/ni_data; perhaps this repository is not set up correctly or has moved rsync: connection unexpectedly closed (0 bytes received so far) [Receiver] rsync error: error in rsync protocol data stream (code 12) at io.c(226) [Receiver=3.1.3] rsync failed -- run git annex again to resume file transfer (from quiethost...) ssh: connect to host localhost port 2225: Connection refused rsync: connection unexpectedly closed (0 bytes received so far) [Receiver] rsync error: unexplained error (code 255) at io.c(226) [Receiver=3.1.3] rsync failed -- run git annex again to resume file transfer (from zenhost...) SHA256E-s32243--feae20d26c487947f9ad30019459464ba5a206a4ae6149a9d10fa4100c64f624 32,243 100% 7.69MB/s 0:00:00 (xfr#1, to-chk=0/1) (checksum...) ok (recording state in git...) chymera@clusterhost ~/ni_data/ofM.dr $ ls -lah 20151226_112356_4012_1_7/2/pdata/1/ total 468K drwxr-sr-x 2 chymera wheel 4.0K Nov 2 2017 . drwxr-sr-x 3 chymera wheel 4.0K Mar 20 2017 .. -rw-r-Sr-- 1 chymera wheel 422K Mar 20 2017 2dseq -rw-r-Sr-- 1 chymera wheel 356 Mar 20 2017 id -rw-r-Sr-- 1 chymera wheel 420 Mar 20 2017 methreco -rw-r-Sr-- 1 chymera wheel 349 Mar 20 2017 procs -rw-r-Sr-- 1 chymera wheel 9.1K Mar 20 2017 reco -rw-r-Sr-- 1 chymera wheel 8.3K Nov 2 2017 visu_pars chymera@clusterhost ~/ni_data/ofM.dr $ ls -lah 20151226_112356_4012_1_7/2/pulseprogram lrwxrwxrwx 1 chymera wheel 195 Dec 25 22:01 20151226_112356_4012_1_7/2/pulseprogram -> ../../../.git/annex/objects/vz/WW/SHA256E-s32243--feae20d26c487947f9ad30019459464ba5a206a4ae6149a9d10fa4100c64f624/SHA256E-s32243--feae20d26c487947f9ad30019459464ba5a206a4ae6149a9d10fa4100c64f624 chymera@clusterhost ~/ni_data/ofM.dr $ git annex get 20151226_112356_4012_1_7/2/pulseprogram chymera@clusterhost ~/ni_data/ofM.dr $ ls -lah 20151226_112356_4012_1_7/2/pdata/1/^C chymera@clusterhost ~/ni_data/ofM.dr $ git annex direct chymera@clusterhost ~/ni_data/ofM.dr $ git annex get 20151226_112356_4012_1_7/2/pulseprogram chymera@clusterhost ~/ni_data/ofM.dr $ ls -lah 20151226_112356_4012_1_7/2/pulseprogram lrwxrwxrwx 1 chymera wheel 195 Dec 25 22:01 20151226_112356_4012_1_7/2/pulseprogram -> ../../../.git/annex/objects/vz/WW/SHA256E-s32243--feae20d26c487947f9ad30019459464ba5a206a4ae6149a9d10fa4100c64f624/SHA256E-s32243--feae20d26c487947f9ad30019459464ba5a206a4ae6149a9d10fa4100c64f624 chymera@clusterhost ~/ni_data/ofM.dr $ git annex drop 20151226_112356_4012_1_7/2/pulseprogram drop 20151226_112356_4012_1_7/2/pulseprogram (locking data0...) (lockcontent failed) (checking data0...) git-annex-shell: failed to read git config of git repository in zenhost on /run/media/chymera/data0/ni_data; perhaps this repository is not set up correctly or has moved (locking data1...) (lockcontent failed) (checking data1...) git-annex-shell: failed to read git config of git repository in zenhost on /run/media/chymera/data1/ni_data; perhaps this repository is not set up correctly or has moved (locking quiethost...) (lockcontent failed) (checking quiethost...) ssh: connect to host localhost port 2225: Connection refused (locking zenhost...) ok (recording state in git...) chymera@clusterhost ~/ni_data/ofM.dr $ git annex get 20151226_112356_4012_1_7/2/pulseprogram get 20151226_112356_4012_1_7/2/pulseprogram (from data0...) git-annex-shell: failed to read git config of git repository in zenhost on /run/media/chymera/data0/ni_data; perhaps this repository is not set up correctly or has moved rsync: connection unexpectedly closed (0 bytes received so far) [Receiver] rsync error: error in rsync protocol data stream (code 12) at io.c(226) [Receiver=3.1.3] rsync failed -- run git annex again to resume file transfer (from data1...) git-annex-shell: failed to read git config of git repository in zenhost on /run/media/chymera/data1/ni_data; perhaps this repository is not set up correctly or has moved rsync: connection unexpectedly closed (0 bytes received so far) [Receiver] rsync error: error in rsync protocol data stream (code 12) at io.c(226) [Receiver=3.1.3] rsync failed -- run git annex again to resume file transfer (from quiethost...) ssh: connect to host localhost port 2225: Connection refused rsync: connection unexpectedly closed (0 bytes received so far) [Receiver] rsync error: unexplained error (code 255) at io.c(226) [Receiver=3.1.3] rsync failed -- run git annex again to resume file transfer (from zenhost...) SHA256E-s32243--feae20d26c487947f9ad30019459464ba5a206a4ae6149a9d10fa4100c64f624 32,243 100% 30.75MB/s 0:00:00 (xfr#1, to-chk=0/1) (checksum...) ok (recording state in git...) chymera@clusterhost ~/ni_data/ofM.dr $ ls -lah 20151226_112356_4012_1_7/2/pulseprogram lrwxrwxrwx 1 chymera wheel 195 Dec 25 22:01 20151226_112356_4012_1_7/2/pulseprogram -> ../../../.git/annex/objects/vz/WW/SHA256E-s32243--feae20d26c487947f9ad30019459464ba5a206a4ae6149a9d10fa4100c64f624/SHA256E-s32243--feae20d26c487947f9ad30019459464ba5a206a4ae6149a9d10fa4100c64f624 Even after git-annex states it fetched it, the symlink is still broken. On my other remote, however, it's perfectly fine: chymera@zenhost ~/ni_data/ofM.dr $ ls -lah 20151226_112356_4012_1_7/2/pulseprogram lrwxrwxrwx 1 chymera wheel 195 May 23 2018 20151226_112356_4012_1_7/2/pulseprogram -> ../../../.git/annex/objects/vz/WW/SHA256E-s32243--feae20d26c487947f9ad30019459464ba5a206a4ae6149a9d10fa4100c64f624/SHA256E-s32243--feae20d26c487947f9ad30019459464ba5a206a4ae6149a9d10fa4100c64f624