[rdiff-backup-users] rdiff-backup 1.1.16 loses connection to remote systems

[Oliver Hookins]

Hi, I've got a bunch of machines which I'm backing up and they seem to drop
the SSH connection and not provide any useful information about what is
going wrong.

On the server side I see the following:

Read from remote host keel.backup: Connection reset by peer
Fatal Error: Lost connection to the remote system

On the client side, obviously there are no logs but I have attached an
"strace -eopen" to see if it is doing anything funny. This was captured at
the end of the backup (presumably before it dropped the SSH connection):

open("/var/cfengine/inputs/vsftpd.cf", O_RDONLY|O_LARGEFILE) = 3
--- SIGPIPE (Broken pipe) @ 0 (0) ---
--- SIGPIPE (Broken pipe) @ 0 (0) ---
--- SIGPIPE (Broken pipe) @ 0 (0) ---
open("/usr/bin/rdiff-backup.real", O_RDONLY|O_LARGEFILE) = 3
--- SIGPIPE (Broken pipe) @ 0 (0) ---
--- SIGPIPE (Broken pipe) @ 0 (0) ---
--- SIGPIPE (Broken pipe) @ 0 (0) ---
open("/usr/lib/python2.3/site-packages/rdiff_backup/Main.py",
O_RDONLY|O_LARGEFILE) = 3
--- SIGPIPE (Broken pipe) @ 0 (0) ---
--- SIGPIPE (Broken pipe) @ 0 (0) ---
--- SIGPIPE (Broken pipe) @ 0 (0) ---
open("/usr/lib/python2.3/site-packages/rdiff_backup/log.py",
O_RDONLY|O_LARGEFILE) = 3
--- SIGPIPE (Broken pipe) @ 0 (0) ---
--- SIGPIPE (Broken pipe) @ 0 (0) ---
--- SIGPIPE (Broken pipe) @ 0 (0) ---
open("/usr/lib/python2.3/site-packages/rdiff_backup/log.py",
O_RDONLY|O_LARGEFILE) = 3
--- SIGPIPE (Broken pipe) @ 0 (0) ---
--- SIGPIPE (Broken pipe) @ 0 (0) ---
--- SIGPIPE (Broken pipe) @ 0 (0) ---
--- SIGPIPE (Broken pipe) @ 0 (0) ---

Is this indicative of any problems on the client side?

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Regards,
Oliver Hookins