8 May
2015
8 May
'15
4:35 a.m.
On Fri, May 08, 2015 at 01:59:12PM +0200, Timothy Murphy wrote:
Sorin Srbu wrote:
The worst thing about BackupPC is the insane error message "Unable to read 4 bytes", which comes up if anything is wrong. Possibly the worst error message anywhere?
thats an rsync protocol message, and yeah, debugging connection/authentication issues is a bit ugly.
I'm sure you are right. But I use rsync several times a day, and I have never received this message.
It's not ugly, it is inexcusable.
It may not be rsync fault.
I vaguely recall that BackupPC uses an ancient (~2006) Perl rsync library, which, for instance, does not support compressed transfers. Maybe that terse message is all that BackupPC gets from the library. :-)
Mihai