20 Jun
2014
20 Jun
'14
10:48 a.m.
On Fri, 2014-06-20 at 15:50 +0100, Timothy Murphy wrote:
Many applications give unhelpful error messages, but I've never met any quite as useless as the invariable message from BackupPC: "Unable to read 4 bytes" If only it could sometimes say "Unable to read 3 bytes" or even "Hooray, was able to read 1 byte".
What 4 bytes did it want to read, incidentally?
AFAIK it's actually an error from rsync (I've seen it in rsnapshot as well, which is also rsync-based). Google for more.
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