rsync suddenly hanging indefinitely during transfers

Question

For the past few years, I have been using an rsync one-liner to back up important folders on my Mac Mini desktop (OSX 10.9, 2.5 GHz i5, 4 GB RAM) to a FreeNAS box (0.7.2 Sabanda

Answer 1

I've been running into the same thing again and again and it seems to help if you drop the -v option (which is annoying if you need that output).