Hi all,

 

I set up BackupPC at home to make more systematic backups of mine and wifeys homefolders on the  samba-server and ran into the somewhat dreaded “Unable to read 4 bytes”-error.

 

Problem is *maybe* that the host to be backed up is running sshd on port 522.

 

What I’ve done so far is to create the passwordless login with my backuppc-user to the host, tested and this works.

As the backuppc-user I can login to the host using ssh over port 522 without entering a password and becoming root.

 

Rsync is used as the transfer method, BTW.

 

In the BPC web-GUI, I’ve added port 522 to RsyncClientCMD, so that now it reads:
$sshPath -q -x -l -p 522 root $host $rsyncPath $argList+

 

Was this correct to do?

 

I’ve tried to disable iptables on the host, with no change, still getting the 4 byte-error.

 

What am I missing?? Is there something with rsync not connecting properly maybe?

 

Hints appreciated.
Thanks.

 

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