I can't figure out why rsync is failing, any tips/hints on how to  
debug is very much appreciated.

I'm using ssh with pub/private keys.

I can execute any arbitrary command using ssh from server to client  
(ssh -l backuppc ls / ), I can also manually execute rsync commands  
from user to client including that generated by backuppc itself.
> /usr/bin/ssh -x -n -l backuppc foo.local /usr/bin/sudo /Network/ 
> macports/ppc/bin/rsync  --numeric-ids --perms --owner --group -D -- 
> links --hard-links --times --block-size=2048 --recursive --ignore- 
> times . /Users/

With server/sender removed. Of course, without the --sender/--server  
opts it syncs the local directories of the client.
I'm unclear on exactly how to "emulate" the backuppc commands manually  
for testing or where to go form here.
Below is the sparse log output (cranked all the way up in debug level)

> Contents of file /Volumes/backups/pc/foo.local/XferLOG.bad.z,  
> modified 2009-08-10 15:05:12 (Extracting only Errors)
>
> full backup started for directory /Users Running: /usr/bin/ssh -x -n  
> -l backuppc foo.local /usr/bin/sudo /Network/macports/ppc/bin/rsync - 
> vv --server --sender --numeric-ids --perms --owner --group -D -- 
> links --hard-links --times --block-size=2048 --recursive --ignore- 
> times . /Users/ Xfer PIDs are now 79669
> Rsync command pid is 79669
> Fetching remote protocol
> Got remote protocol 30 Negotiated protocol version 28
> Checksum seed is 1853453170
> Got checksumSeed 0x6e797372
> Sent exclude: *Trash* Sent exclude: /proc/* Sent exclude: /dev/*  
> Sent exclude: *tmp/* Sent exclude: *.ogg Sent exclude: *.tmp Sent  
> exclude: *temp* Sent exclude: *Music* Sent exclude: *Movies* Sent  
> exclude: *.avi Sent exclude: *.mov Sent exclude: *.mpg Sent exclude:  
> *.mpeg Sent exclude: *.qt Sent exclude: *.wma Sent exclude: .ra Sent  
> exclude: *.au Sent exclude: *.Spotlight-* Sent exclude: *.DS_Store  
> Sent exclude: *hotfiles.btree Sent exclude: /var Sent exclude: *.log  
> Sent exclude: *.cpan Sent exclude: */var Sent exclude: *Caches Sent  
> exclude: *.cache Sent exclude: *Parallels Sent exclude: /Volumes/*  
> Sent exclude: *sparseimage Sent exclude: *Downloads* Sent exclude:  
> *VirtualBox/* Sent exclude: *Support/VMware* Sent exclude: /Network/ 
> * Sent exclude: /mach
> Read EOF:
>  Tried again: got 0 bytes
> fileListReceive() failed
> Done: 0 files, 0 bytes Got fatal error during xfer (fileListReceive  
> failed) Backup aborted (fileListReceive failed)
> Not saving this as a partial backup since it has fewer files than  
> the prior one (got 0 and 0 files versus 0)

Cheers,

-jkyl


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