On Sun, Aug 15, 2010 at 4:18 AM, waverider <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello, > I am trying to backup a remote device using rsync. > I have Backuppc installed and everything appears to be operating OK. I have > changed where files are stored to a connected external USB hard drive - logs > are being saved to there so the setup must be correct. > > I have tested Rsync with the remote device using the format: > rsync -avz -e ssh remoteu...@remotehost:/remote/dir /workstation/dir/ > and the files are copied correctly without asking for password, so rsync is > working OK. > > However, when I try to backup with BackupPC the backup fails. The error log > shows me: > > full backup started for directory /remote/dir > Running: /usr/bin/ssh -q -x -l root 192.168.72.11 /usr/bin/rsync --server > --sender --numeric-ids --perms --owner --group -D --links --hard-links > --times --block-size=2048 --recursive --ignore-times . /remote/dir/ > Xfer PIDs are now 1893 > 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) > > I must have something configured incorrectly but cannot find it. > > Any help would be greatly appreciated. >
That error usually means you have a problem with the ssh connection.There were several discussions of the "read 4 bytes" error on this mailing list. Also about the possible forms to connect with ssh. Try, from the server, to run $ ssh [email protected] You'll need a passless ssh connection or some kind of ssh agent. Otherwise the backuppc connection will not be successful. Hope it helps Luis ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ This SF.net email is sponsored by Make an app they can't live without Enter the BlackBerry Developer Challenge http://p.sf.net/sfu/RIM-dev2dev _______________________________________________ BackupPC-users mailing list [email protected] List: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users Wiki: http://backuppc.wiki.sourceforge.net Project: http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/
