Maybe you have some tricky alias for ssh? For example I have:

$ type ssh
ssh is aliased to `ssh -C'

So try to run exactly the same command (with full path) as is noticed in
log file from the shell:

Nick Bright wrote on 11/05/2010 03:14:
> Running: /usr/bin/ssh -q -x -l root TargetServer /usr/bin/rsync --server 
> --sender --numeric-ids --perms --owner --group -D --links --hard-links 
> --times --block-size=2048 --recursive --ignore-times . /
> Xfer PIDs are now 2924
> Read EOF: Connection reset by peer
> Tried again: got 0 bytes
> Done: 0 files, 0 bytes
> Got fatal error during xfer (Unable to read 4 bytes)
> Backup aborted (Unable to read 4 bytes)
> Not saving this as a partial backup since it has fewer files than the 
> prior one (got 0 and 0 files versus 0)


-- 
With best regards,
Dmitry

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