I had changed the ssh argument to rsync because I had a "failure to read 4 
bytes" error due to a $Conf{XferMethod} = "rsync" when it should have been 
"rsyncd" . . . . all better now :)  

the "one character off" mistake strikes me again!

Thanks Tino, you did actually help me back on the right track!


--- On Fri, 2/13/09, Tino Schwarze <backuppc.lists AT tisc DOT de> wrote:

> From: Tino Schwarze <backuppc.lists AT tisc DOT de>
> Subject: Re: [BackupPC-users] trailing "." causing in 3.1.0-3.fc10 server 
> with Vista client
> To: backuppc-users AT lists.sourceforge DOT net
> Date: Friday, February 13, 2009, 6:10 PM
> On Fri, Feb 13, 2009 at 02:50:28PM -0800, Brian Neu wrote:
> > I'm wondering if the "." just before the
> "cDrive" at the end of this line is causing the
> below error.  I've gone through the Config.pl but
> haven't been able to locate the source of the problem. 
> Any ideas?
> > 
> > 
> > Running: /usr/bin/rsync -q -x -l root jkiger-pc
> /usr/bin/rsync --server --sender --numeric-ids --perms
> --owner --group -D --links --hard-links --times
> --block-size=2048 --recursive --ignore-times . cDrive/
> 
> The dot is correct. The command line is not. The first
> /usr/bin/rsync should
> probably be a /usr/bin/ssh . Do you have ssh+rsync on your
> Vista client
> or how are you trying to backup?
> 
> Tino.
> 
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