Hello,
I am trying to backup a remote device using rsync.  
I have Backuppc installed and everything appears to be operating OK. I have 
changed where files are stored to a connected external USB hard drive - logs 
are being saved to there so the setup must be correct.  

I have tested Rsync with the remote device using the format:
rsync -avz -e ssh remoteuser@remotehost:/remote/dir /workstation/dir/ 
and the files are copied correctly without asking for password, so rsync is 
working OK.

However, when I try to backup with BackupPC the backup fails.  The error  log 
shows me:

full backup started for directory /remote/dir
Running: /usr/bin/ssh -q -x -l root 192.168.72.11 /usr/bin/rsync --server 
--sender --numeric-ids --perms --owner --group -D --links --hard-links --times 
--block-size=2048 --recursive --ignore-times . /remote/dir/
Xfer PIDs are now 1893
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 must have something configured incorrectly but cannot find it.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

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