On Thu, Feb 27, 2014 at 11:41 AM, Michael Conner <mdc1952 AT gmail DOT com> 
wrote:
> I'm not an IT specialist but have successfully setup a Backuppc system at my 
> small museum that has been running well for several years. I have 15 or so 
> clients, mostly XP with some Vista, and Windows 7 with a few Macs and Linux 
> machines as well. Most of the Windows machines I do with DeltaCopy and ryncd, 
> which has generally worked fine. However, I just installed W7 on one that had 
> run XP. I did it as a new host and used as a template a W7 config file from a 
> host that has given no problems. For excludes, I use the list given by 
> http://www.cs.umd.edu/~cdunne/projs/backuppc_guide.html Everything else is 
> default.
>
> However, I can't get the new one to do a complete backup. It keeps 
> terminating with the following error:
>
> Read EOF: Connection reset by peer
> Tried again: got 0 bytes
> finish: removing in-process file Tina/Desktop/Parkinson 
> Disks/everybodystep.mid
> Child is aborting
> Parent read EOF from child: fatal error!
> Done: 1903 files, 2835124878 bytes
> Got fatal error during xfer (Child exited prematurely)
> Backup aborted (Child exited prematurely)
> Saving this as a partial backup
>
> In several tries, the in-process file varies as does the time it runs before 
> terminating.
>
> I've seen this once before in a computer that I switched from SMB to rsyncd. 
> That computer ultimately worked itself out without me doing anything, but I 
> would like to know why this is happening.
>

You can't tell much from the server-side log.  It just means that the
connection to the client dropped before the run completed.    Some
possibilities are going through a stateful firewall or NAT gateway
with an idle timeout on connections, or the windows box might be going
to a powersaving sleep mode.

-- 
   Les Mikesell
     lesmikesell AT gmail DOT com

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