[BackupPC-users] Inconsistent Errors on Inc/Full backup of WinXP box

[Erik S. <mai...@sc...>]

Greetings,

I've been running a BackupPC server that backs up a few linux boxes and 
one windows box.  It's worked successfully for many months.  I recently 
upgraded the windows box to XP and while the backups worked the first 
few times, they now fail to run.  It appears the backups timeout.
On the backuppc server, i'm running: BackupPC 2.0.2, OpenSSH_2.5.2p2, 
SSH protocols 1.5/2.0, rsync version 2.5.6  protocol version 26.

On the windows box, i'm running cygwin1.dll 1005.5.0.0, OpenSSH_3.7.1p2, 
SSH protocols 1.5/2.0, OpenSSL 0.9.7c, rsync  version 2.5.6  protocol 
version 26.

Here's the error log (some lines deleted for brevity):

Running: /usr/bin/ssh -l schooky svelte /usr/bin/rsync --server --sender 
--numeric-ids --perms --owner --group --devices --links --times 
--block-size=2048 --recursive -v --include=/data --exclude=/\* . /
Xfer PIDs are now 1470
Got remote protocol 26
Xfer PIDs are now 1470,1471
 create d 770  1003/545           0 .
 create d 700  1003/513           0 data
 create d 755  1003/513           0 data/MSF
 create d 700  1003/513           0 data/contracting
 create d 700  1003/513           0 data/contracting/invoices
 create d 700  1003/513           0 data/documents
 create d 700  1003/513           0 data/documents/resume
 pool     700  1003/513       11264 
data/documents/resume/Qualifications.doc
 create d 700  1003/513           0 data/documents/resume/julianeSamples
 pool     700  1003/513       28160 
data/documents/resume/julianeSamples/bio-narrative Christopher Gergen.doc
 pool     700  1003/513       33280 
data/documents/resume/julianeSamples/shinta resume.doc
Parent read EOF from child: fatal error!
Done: 0 files, 0 bytes

the last few lines of the log are:

2003/11/17 14:44:20 incr backup started back to 2003-11-03 13:41:47 for 
directory /
2003/11/17 16:44:43 Got fatal error during xfer (Child exited prematurely)
2003/11/17 16:44:53 Dump aborted (Child exited prematurely)


I can't think of anything I've changed since it worked correctly the 
first few times on XP (there is one full backup, and 2 incr backups 
completed, all 14 days old. All the files in that directory are fairly 
small.

thanks for any insight.
e