This is a locale related problem. The current locales on the servers are french : root@STACO4:~# locale LANG=fr_FR.UTF-8 LANGUAGE= LC_CTYPE="fr_FR.UTF-8" LC_NUMERIC="fr_FR.UTF-8" LC_TIME="fr_FR.UTF-8" LC_COLLATE="fr_FR.UTF-8" LC_MONETARY="fr_FR.UTF-8" LC_MESSAGES="fr_FR.UTF-8" LC_PAPER="fr_FR.UTF-8" LC_NAME="fr_FR.UTF-8" LC_ADDRESS="fr_FR.UTF-8" LC_TELEPHONE="fr_FR.UTF-8" LC_MEASUREMENT="fr_FR.UTF-8" LC_IDENTIFICATION="fr_FR.UTF-8" LC_ALL= I've 4 account/Container/Object servers. STACO1 to STACO4, I've changes the locale to LC_ALL=C.UTF-8 on the first 3 of them, keeping STACO4 in french locale, and it works better for the 3 first servers. Here is a new extract of the logs : May 12 14:14:32 STACO3 object-replicator: Removing partition: /srv/node/s03z3rpd03/objects/68179 May 12 14:14:33 STACO2 object-replicator: >> "Succès de Rsync pour %s" % u'foo' Traceback (most recent call last): File "", line 1, in