[CentOS] Backup PC or other solution

Fri May 8 12:35:48 UTC 2015
Mihai T. Lazarescu <mtlagm at gmail.com>

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