On Tue, 2007-04-10 at 11:06 -0700, Kris S. Amundson wrote: > Greetings archivers, > > I've been running BackupPC for quite some time and have been very happy. > Today I ran into an issue. I added two new hosts, set them up like I > always have (rsync using SSH keys), and was getting failures. > > Server is 2.1.1 on Sarge. > Client hosts are a mix of sarge/dapper. > Two new hosts are pre-release etch (March builds). > > I could ssh and run rsync just fine: `ssh [EMAIL PROTECTED] sudo rsync` > > The command BackupPC runs: > /usr/bin/ssh -q -l backuppc amg1 sudo /usr/bin/rsync --server --sender > --numeric-ids --perms --owner --group --devices --links --times > --block-size=2048 --recursive --exclude=/proc --exclude=/sys > --exclude=/tmp --ignore-times . / > > The error: > 2007-04-10 09:59:06 full backup started for directory / > 2007-04-10 09:59:08 Got fatal error during xfer (fileListReceive failed) > > The workaround: > After pondering what could be different, the only thing that came to > mind was etch itself.. so possibly a version or bug. I removed the > version of rsync from etch and installed the sarge package. > > etch: rsync version 2.6.9 protocol version 29 > sarge: rsync version 2.6.4 protocol version 29 > > Everything is working now that I've downgraded rsync. Anyone else hit > this issue? I'll try again when I build a Debian 4.0 box. > Almost exactly a year ago this was a popular question. The archives can explain it well, but in summary, replace --devices in the rsync command with -D. -- Travis Fraser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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