Jeffrey J. Kosowsky wrote:

> Now, the verbose output of BackupPC_dump shows:
>               Got remote protocol 30
>               Negotiated protocol version 28
> while the extra extra verbose output of running rsync manually shows:
>         (Client) Protocol versions: remote=30, negotiated=30
>         receiving incremental file list
>         (Server) Protocol versions: remote=30, negotiated=30
>
> I SUSPECT the problem may be due to perl-File-RsyncP which reportedly
> only uses protocol 28 while rsync-3.0.4 uses protocol 30. If so,
> perhaps the reason that the rsyncd method works is that it bypasses
> such portions of perl-File-RsyncP that cause the problem.
>
> If true, perhaps a lot of the problems with backing up Windows  
> machines
> could be cleaned up by upgrading perl-File-RsyncP to protocol 30.
>
> IF so, is there any way to update the perl library? (I noticed that
> Craig is also the author of it)

File::RsyncP is a (non-complete) implementation of rsync in Perl  
written for use by BackupPC. The latest version of File::RsyncP  
supports protocol version 28, there is nothing to upgrade there. The  
protocol used is the highest version supported by both the client and  
the server, which is 28 in either case you described. There is no  
version of File::RsyncP which supports protocol >28 at the moment.

By the way, we are backing up machines that all run rsync 3.0.4 and  
support protocol 30, but we're using BackupPC with File::RsyncP, so  
the negotiated procotol is protocol 28 for all our backups. And our  
backups are working fine. But we're not backing up any Windows machines.

Nils Breunese.

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