On Fri, Mar 29, 2013 at 2:00 PM, Curtis Vaughan <cavaughan AT gmail DOT com> 
wrote:
> After losing my /var/lib/backuppc drive, I have installed a new drive and
> mounted it. But now any computer I try to backup results in the following
> error:
>
> Got fatal error during xfer (Unable to read 4 bytes)
> Backup aborted (Unable to read 4 bytes)
>
> Looking through various posts one would think the error has to do with
> having properly setup public keys for the servers. But those are fine.
> Nothing has changed there.

Did you test them by ssh'ing to one of the targets as root, starting
from the backuppc user on the server?  Are you sure backuppc's home
and thus the .ssh directory aren't under /var/lib/backuppc on your
system?

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   Les Mikesell
     lesmikesell AT gmail DOT com

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