BackupPC - a brief rant

[George Avrunin]

On Fri, 20 Jun 2014 19:16:29 +0100, "Patrick O'Callaghan"
<pocallaghan at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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 :-)
> 
> poc
> 

It can also occur with BackupPC when keyless ssh isn't set up right
and ssh is giving a prompt (e.g., on the first ssh login to a host).  Has
happened to me more than once...

  George


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