I have been using BackupPC via rsync daemons on the target machines and all has 
been working well.  At least until about the time rsync went to version 3.0.6.

Since then backups have been failing for some targets.  The failure is a TCP 
ZeroWindow issue.  It looks like the server rsync process cannot empty it's 
buffer soon enough and eventually the process fails.

I really do not know if it is rsync version related, because I never looked at 
the packet stream until I started having failures.

BackupPC was running on a VM host and the failing machine was one of the guest 
VMs. I tried upgrading rsync to 3.0.9 and that didn't help.

So I moved the BackupPC set up to a different server (no VM).  Not all backups 
are working. though I still see some ZeroWindow packets along with a few 
retransmision packets.  But the backup completes on all machines, including the 
VM that was failing before.

I've googled rsync zerowindow and found some references, but none seemed to 
apply to my situation.

Anybody else having a similar experience?

Emmett
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