That lead me to my problem. I had my ssh keys setup so root could access
the other server without a password, but I did not have backuppc user setup
to access root@host without a password. Fixing this solved my problem.
Thanks!
On Wed, Mar 23, 2011 at 10:26 AM, Michael Stowe <mst...@chicago.us.mensa.org
> wrote:
> > I just setup BackupPC on a server and I'm working to get it working via
> > rsync with some of our servers. I have ssh keys setup so that root can
> > ssh
> > from the host server to the client server without requiring a login.
>
> Does this work?
>
> On the BackupPC box:
> su - backuppc
> ssh testbox -l root
>
> Where testbox matches the box, and root matches the rsync username?
>
> > When I try to run a full backup to the client I get this:
> >
> > 2011-03-23 09:40:43 Got fatal error during xfer (Unable to read 4 bytes)
> > 2011-03-23 09:40:48 Backup aborted (Unable to read 4 bytes)
> >
> > And the Last bad Xfer LOG:
> >
> > full backup started for directory /www
> > Running: /usr/bin/ssh -q -x -l -v root client_server /usr/bin/rsync
> > --server
> > --sender --numeric-ids --perms --owner --group -D --links --hard-links
> > --times --block-size=2048 --recursive --ignore-times . /www/
> > Xfer PIDs are now 27367
> > Sending: 1c000000
> > Rsync command pid is 27367
> > Fetching remote protocol
> > Read EOF: Connection reset by peer
> > Tried again: got 0 bytes
> > Done: 0 files, 0 bytes
> > Got fatal error during xfer (Unable to read 4 bytes)
> > Backup aborted (Unable to read 4 bytes)
> > Not saving this as a partial backup since it has fewer files than the
> > prior
> > one (got 0 and 0 files versus 0)
> >
> > Even though we run an internal DNS server, I've also tried specifying
> > client_server's ip address instead and got the same error.
> >
> > What am I doing wrong? The error is completely cryptic.
> >
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