BackupPC - a brief rant

[Patrick O'Callaghan]

On Fri, 2014-06-20 at 12:13 -0400, Tom Horsley wrote:
> On Fri, 20 Jun 2014 16:48:38 +0100
> Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
> 
> > AFAIK it's actually an error from rsync (I've seen it in rsnapshot as
> > well, which is also rsync-based). Google for more.
> 
> And apparently, what it actually means is: "Hey! I'm trying to
> talk to an incompatible version of rsync on the other system."
> 
> I got it recently trying to copy a very old system's root
> to a virtual image and I had to download the source rpm
> for rsync and build the new rsync on the old system.

Yes, that sounds about right. I was too lazy to backtrack and look it up
again :-)

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