Hi Adrian, The error comes from the server. It’s hard to say why this happened, what is the storage element, is it EOS? When was the transfer executed? Cheers, Michal > On 22 Jun 2021, at 10:10, Adrian Sevcenco <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > > Hi! for some tests on my plain xrootd storage i get this error: > > xrdcp exited with exit code 54: [ERROR] Server responded with an error: [3018] Unable to pcreate /home/aliprod/data/05/50057/b3704a60-d32a-11eb-96cf-0242633cb673; file exists (destination) > > the command was done with : > export XRD_CONNECTIONWINDOW="3" > export XRD_CONNECTIONRETRY="1" > export XRD_TIMEOUTRESOLUTION="1" > export XRD_PREFERIPV4="1" > export XRD_REQUESTTIMEOUT="60" > > xrdcp --nopbar --verbose --force --posc > > what does this error mean? > and how can it happen? > > in principle the actual destination is unique, without any chance of destination present > moreover this error is quite recent (i think that the test client was recently moved to xrootd 5.x) > > Thank you! > Adrian > > > ######################################################################## > Use REPLY-ALL to reply to list > > To unsubscribe from the XROOTD-L list, click the following link: > https://listserv.slac.stanford.edu/cgi-bin/wa?SUBED1=XROOTD-L&A=1 ######################################################################## Use REPLY-ALL to reply to list To unsubscribe from the XROOTD-L list, click the following link: https://listserv.slac.stanford.edu/cgi-bin/wa?SUBED1=XROOTD-L&A=1