Again, the error in rsync prototocol

[Alexander Lamb]

Hello list,

I am doing something really simple. It worked twice and now fails for  
an unknown reason. I am on MacOSX (Tiger) and I am simply making a  
backup of a volume on an external Firewire drive. Here is the command  
I am using (which went fine for the first 2 rsyncs). I tried to stop  
some processes, I looked into the drives directory tree but nothing  
seemed bad.

Any idea?

($:~)-> sudo rsync -Eavvb --delete --backup-dir="/Volumes/DATA 1/ 
rsync_bck" /Volumes/DATA/ "/Volumes/DATA 1"
Password:
backup_dir is /Volumes/DATA 1/rsync_bck/
building file list ...
[sender] expand file_list to 131072 bytes, did move
[sender] expand file_list to 262144 bytes, did move
[sender] expand file_list to 524288 bytes, did move
[sender] expand file_list to 1048576 bytes, did move
done
[receiver] expand file_list to 131072 bytes, did move
[receiver] expand file_list to 262144 bytes, did move
[receiver] expand file_list to 524288 bytes, did move
[receiver] expand file_list to 1048576 bytes, did move
[receiver] expand file_list to 131072 bytes, did move
[receiver] expand file_list to 262144 bytes, did move
[receiver] expand file_list to 524288 bytes, did move
[receiver] expand file_list to 1048576 bytes, did move
rsync: connection unexpectedly closed (8 bytes received so far) [sender]
rsync error: error in rsync protocol data stream (code 12) at / 
SourceCache/rsync/rsync-20/rsync/io.c(359)
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