[Cialug] rsnapshot problem with compression

[Nathan C. Smith]

Are there separate libraries for the compression and are they available?

-Nate 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: cialug-bounces at cialug.org 
> [mailto:cialug-bounces at cialug.org] On Behalf Of L. V. Lammert
> Sent: Monday, June 14, 2010 9:06 PM
> To: Central Iowa Linux Users Group
> Subject: [Cialug] rsnapshot problem with compression
> 
> Trying to get compression working on one of our backup jobs, 
> .. but it seems to be choking as soon as I add the --compress:
> 
> /usr/local/bin/rsync -a --delete --numeric-ids --relative 
> --delete-excluded \
>     --compress --exclude=/dev/ --exclude=/mnt --exclude=/sys/ \
>     --exclude=.gvfs/ --exclude=/lost+found/ --exclude=/media/ \
>     --exclude=/proc/ --exclude=/tmp/ --exclude=/u/VM/ 
> --exclude=.Trash* \
>     --exclude=/u/Downloads/ --exclude=/u/VBoxBackup/ 
> --rsh="/usr/bin/ssh ..
> 
> received request to transfer non-regular file: 3286 
> [receiver] rsync error: protocol incompatibility (code 2) at 
> rsync.c(336) [receiver=3.0.6]
> rsync: writefd_unbuffered failed to write 4 bytes to socket 
> [generator]:
> Broken pipe (32)
> rsync error: error in rsync protocol data stream (code 12) at 
> io.c(1525) [generator=3.0.6]
> 
> Does anyone have a suggestion as to why compression is 
> blowing up the 'conversation' and/or how to get it working 
> properly? The backup DOES work without compression, but it 
> ran a week [plain DSL] without completing the bacukp (it DID 
> get about 40GB), so the only way to get a snapshot is to get 
> compression working.
> 
> 	Lee
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