Inflate Error?

[Chuck Wolber]

I've been getting this error message for a few days from a customer's 
server and we can't seem to decipher it. I googled for it and only found 
references to it with respect to much older versions of rsync. We're 
running the Debian packaged version of rsync version 2.6.2-3. The customer 
side is running 2.6.3 compiled from source.

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inflate (token) returned -5

rsync error: error in rsync protocol data stream (code 12) at token.c(487)
rsync: connection unexpectedly closed (31461294 bytes read so far)
rsync error: error in rsync protocol data stream (code 12) at io.c(343)
Command exited with non-zero status 12
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Timing information on the run:

real 875.26
user 45.04
sys 66.38


Exact (redacted) commandline used:

/usr/bin/time -p   /usr/bin/rsync  -e  /usr/bin/ssh   --archive  
--compress  --sparse  --stats  --delete  --numeric-ids  --partial    
--exclude "/dev"  --exclude "/proc"  --exclude "/sys"  --exclude "/mnt"  
remote.server.org:/ /local/destination/path


Does anyone have any insights?

-Chuck


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