> I've recently had problems with a backup job on a Mac OS X Server (10.6) 
> producing this error:
> 
> "rsync: writefd_unbuffered failed to write 4 bytes to socket [sender]: Broken 
> pipe (32)
> rsync: connection unexpectedly closed (3225054 bytes received so far) [sender]
> rsync error: error in rsync protocol data stream (code 12) at io.c(601) 
> [sender=3.0.7]"
> 
> Can anyone tell me what it means, why it would occur and most importantly how 
> to fix it.

In order to help answer your questions and provide relevant advice would you 
kindly provide answers to the following questions :

  (1) What is the largest file being backed up?

  (2) Approximately, what is total size of this particular 
      backup source?

  (3) Is the backup taking place via SSH (network) or locally?

  (4) If you are backing up via SSH, then please let me know if your rsync 
      binaries 32bit or 64bit. To find this information a running a command 
      which is  similar to the following on both systems, should provide the
      required information : /usr/local/bin/rsync_v3.0.7 --version

  (5) Is the backup data being written to DAS, internal storage 
      or a network mount point?

  (6) Is the backup destination on a virtual file system such as
      a sparse bundle?

  (7) What is the disk utilization and free space of the destination
      file system? On the system which is connected to the backup storage
      device the following command will provide this information : df -hi

  (8) Would you kindly confirm whether the destination file systems is 
      formatted as HFS plus? In order to find this information, running the 
      following command on the system connected to the destination 
      should provide this information : diskutil list

  (9) Have you attempted to perform a backup to a new destination file system
      using rsync rather than lbackup? 

Finally, would you please execute the backup (manually) via the terminal and 
then provide the output from which is returned from lbackup to your shell. 

If you would prefer to reply with any of this information off list, then simply 
visit the following URL for Lucid contact details : 
http://www.lucidsystems.org/contact/ 

Thank you.




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