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I am setting up BackupPC on my newly imaged Fedora 15 PC. Despite checking that the backuppc user can access the required folders through SSH, I get the following error in my log.

Contents of file /raidata/backup//pc/legolas/XferLOG.bad.z, modified 2011-10-21 20:53:26

full backup started for directory /home
Running: /usr/bin/ssh -v -q -x -l root \$\{hostip\} /usr/bin/rsync --server --sender --numeric-ids --perms --owner --group -D --links --hard-links --times --block-size=2048 --recursive --ignore-times . /home/
Xfer PIDs are now 20396
Got remote protocol 1852141647
Fatal error (bad version): OpenSSH_5.6p1, OpenSSL 1.0.0e-fips 6 Sep 2011

Read EOF: Connection reset by peer
Tried again: got 0 bytes
fileListReceive() failed
Done: 0 files, 0 bytes
Got fatal error during xfer (fileListReceive failed)
Backup aborted (fileListReceive failed)
Not saving this as a partial backup since it has fewer files than the prior one (got 0 and 0 files versus 0)

Hi,

mollcons wrote on 2011-10-21 12:58:25 -0700 [[BackupPC-users] Backup of Localhost (server) fails - fileListReceive failure]:
[...]
full backup started for directory /home
Running: /usr/bin/ssh -v -q -x -l root \$\{hostip\} /usr/bin/rsync --server --sender --numeric-ids --perms --owner --group -D --links --hard-links --times --block-size=2048 --recursive --ignore-times . /home/

'ssh -v' is a stupid idea - it will always lead to failing backups:

Fatal error (bad version): OpenSSH_5.6p1, OpenSSL 1.0.0e-fips 6 Sep 2011

The only confusing thing about this is that the quoted extraneous output is,
in fact, a version description. It is, however, not the *rsync* version in the
rsync protocol format, which rsync would expect here.

Hope that helps.

Regards,
Holger