Re: [BackupPC-users] error rsync version 2.6.3pre1 protocol version 28

[Craig B. <cba...@us...>]

"ciccio ch" writes:

> I recently installed Mandrake 10.1 and did all the necesarry things to let 
> backppc backup my pc again.  Unfortunately I always got an anoying error 
> from the form
> Got fatal error during xfer (aborted by signal=PIPE)
> Fatal error (bad version): rsync: Error parsing options: option may be 
> supported on client but not on server?
> 
> I used rsync version 2.6.3pre1.
> After installing the old version of rsync (from MDK 10) (rsync version 2.6.0 
> protocol version 27)
> 
> It seemed to work again.  Okay this is a solution but I rather would like it 
> to work with the newest version of rsync.  Any idea what could be wrong?  
> bug in rsync, some flags of rsync removed which we use, ...

Rsync version 2.6.3pre1 doesn't support the exclude arguments on
the server side that BackupPC uses.  This was fixed for rsync 2.6.3.
The solution is to use the released version.

Craig