Re: [BackupPC-users] rsync error: unexplained error (code 255) at io.c(226) [Receiver=3.1.2.0]

[Paul F. <pg...@fo...>]

Steve Palm wrote:
 > You are right, of course...  Seems the -T parameter to ssh went
 > away at some point from the master rsync transfer configuration,
 > and the ssh authorized_keys entries for the backup login were
 > created with no-pty.

i've been burned by this in the past -- in my case it was a wrapper 
around ssh that i use for a particular host which was producing a bit
of startup output, and it took me a long time to realize it was
causing the failure.

i can't think of any way for backuppc to help with this (and i tried).

paul

 > 
 > Thankfully, at this point, it seems to be running very smoothly. :)
 > 
 > Steve
 > 
 > > On May 7, 2017, at 3:17 AM, Craig Barratt <cba...@us... <mailto:cba...@us...>> wrote:
 > > 
 > > Steve,
 > > 
 > > Most likely it's a problem with ssh (perhaps it's prompting for a
 > > password) or the client shell is producing output before rsync is
 > > run.
 > > 
 > > Craig
 > > 
 > > On Wednesday, May 3, 2017, Steve Palm <n9...@n9... <mailto:n9...@n9...>> wrote:
 > > Any clue what this is saying?
 > > 
 > > 
 > > This is the rsync child about to exec /usr/local/bin/rsync_bpc
 > > rsync_bpc: connection unexpectedly closed (0 bytes received so far) [Receiver]
 > > Done: 0 errors, 0 filesExist, 0 sizeExist, 0 sizeExistComp, 0 filesTotal, 0 sizeTotal, 0 filesNew, 0 sizeNew, 0 sizeNewComp, 1676476 inode
 > > rsync error: unexplained error (code 255) at io.c(226) [Receiver=3.1.2.0]
 > > rsync_bpc exited with fatal status 255 (65280) (rsync error: unexplained error (code 255) at io.c(226) [Receiver=3.1.2.0])
 > > Xfer PIDs are now
 > > Got fatal error during xfer (No files dumped for share /Users/)
 > > Backup aborted (No files dumped for share /Users/)
 > > 
 > > 
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