> I just setup BackupPC on a server and I'm working to get it working via
> rsync with some of our servers.  I have ssh keys setup so that root can
> ssh
> from the host server to the client server without requiring a login.

Does this work?

On the BackupPC box:
su - backuppc
ssh testbox -l root

Where testbox matches the box, and root matches the rsync username?

> When I try to run a full backup to the client I get this:
>
> 2011-03-23 09:40:43 Got fatal error during xfer (Unable to read 4 bytes)
> 2011-03-23 09:40:48 Backup aborted (Unable to read 4 bytes)
>
> And the Last bad Xfer LOG:
>
> full backup started for directory /www
> Running: /usr/bin/ssh -q -x -l -v root client_server /usr/bin/rsync
> --server
> --sender --numeric-ids --perms --owner --group -D --links --hard-links
> --times --block-size=2048 --recursive --ignore-times . /www/
> Xfer PIDs are now 27367
> Sending: 1c000000
> Rsync command pid is 27367
> Fetching remote protocol
> 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)
>
> Even though we run an internal DNS server, I've also tried specifying
> client_server's ip address instead and got the same error.
>
> What am I doing wrong? The error is completely cryptic.

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