fixed my problem by doing two things, not sure which one solved it...

1) running chkdsk on the windows server
2) upgrading cygwin-rsyncd on the server.

Just throwing it out there for anyone else who has the same issue...

--Ajay

Ajay Sharma wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I'm trying to track down a backuppc issue.  Recently our windows file 
> server is starting to get the "child prematurely exited" error.  We're 
> backing it up via rsyncd running on the windows machine.
> 
> Here's the snip from the 'BackupC_dump -v -f hostname' command:
> 
> ----------------------------
> same     644   400/401    27212288 USERS/...FILENAME....
> Read EOF:
> Tried again: got 0 bytes
> finish: removing in-process file USERS/...FILENAME....
> Child is aborting
> Parent read EOF from child: fatal error!
> Done: 287538 files, 133327795167 bytes
> Got fatal error during xfer (Child exited prematurely)
> ----------------------------
> 
> Has anyone seen this before?  Any ideas on a solution?  Is there anyway 
> to tell rsync to try a to read the file a few more times?  Could it be a 
> bad file on the server and we need to run chkdsk on the server (haven't 
> tried that yet).
> 
> Thanks for your help.
> 
> --Ajay
> 
> PS.  BackupPC kicks serious ass...
> 


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