Hi,

Akibu Flash wrote on 2017-05-29 05:27:04 +0000 [Re: [BackupPC-users] 
Unexplained Error Code 255 - BackupPC]:
> [...]
> I am running backuppc version 4.41 on a Debian computer.

wow ... where did you get that version from?

> When I start a backup, it appears to properly connect to my Windows
> computer and then gives me an error message.  ?Got fatal error during
> xfer (rsync error: error in rsync protocol data stream (code 12) at
> io.c(629) [Receiver=3.0.9.6])? [...] Please note that I am able to ssh
> and rsync into the Windows computer manually from the linux computer
                                      ^^^^^^^^
> without problem.

Also without extraenous output? You seem to be using rsync over ssh, and
rsync is quite fussy about messages that it does not expect. As a rule of
thumb, to a *Linux* computer,

   % ssh clientcomputer true
   %

should immediately display the next prompt as indicated above, i.e. nothing
extra, not even blanks or newlines. For Windoze, your mileage may vary, but
it probably won't. The actual invokation used by BackupPC (or rather rsync_bpc)
might include extra options to ssh, e.g. -q -x -l someuser ... include those
when testing.

Regards,
Holger

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