Skip Guenter wrote:
> I'm guessing the error is a ssh problem from this:
> 
> full backup started for directory /
> Running: /usr/bin/ssh -q -x -l root c17-desktop /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 1896
> 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)
> 
> I'm ASSUMING it doesn't like ssh'ing into itself??
>

There's nothing inherently different about sshing to the local host. 
Did you set up the ssh keys needed to make it work without passwords?

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   Les Mikesell
    lesmikesell AT gmail DOT com

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