BackupPC - a brief rant

[Patrick O'Callaghan]

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.

poc