Rsync job exiting with error "unexpected tag 3 [sender]"

[Alejandro Celery]

Matt McCutchen escribió:
> Alejandro, please CC the rsync list (rsync at lists.samba.org) in replies
> so that your messages are archived and others can help you.
>
> On Tue, 2008-07-22 at 14:26 -0300, Alejandro Celery wrote:
>   
>> Matt McCutchen escribió: 
>>     
>>> On Tue, 2008-07-22 at 09:20 -0300, Alejandro Celery wrote:
>>>       
>>>> I´m rSyncing three folders from my main server to my backup server.
>>>> Main is Ubuntu 7.10 64 bit and backup is Ubuntu 6.10 32 bit. Both are
>>>> Rsync 3.0.2. Please advise me if there any other debug information I
>>>> should provide.
>>>> I get this output:
>>>> 	building file list ... done
>>>> 	Attachments_Redmine.tar.gz
>>>> 	BackupRedmine.sql
>>>> 	calidad/
>>>> 	calidad/DESVIOS QQ 1.2 ADVANTEK 2000.mde
>>>> 	unexpected tag 3 [sender]
>>>> 	rsync error: error in rsync protocol data stream (code 12) at io.c(825) [sender=2.6.9]
>>>>
>>>> The command line is rsync -av --stats /datos/sambashares/* neo::samba
>>>> (the other two are the same except por the source and dest module). 
>>>>         
>>> There was an "unexpected tag 3" bug that could occur when pushing files
>>> to a daemon older than 2.6.9:
>>>
>>> http://lists.samba.org/archive/rsync/2006-May/015361.html
>>>
>>> You claim that both sides have rsync 3.0.2 but the error message
>>> indicates that the client is 2.6.9, so double-check both versions.  If
>>> the daemon is 2.6.9 or newer and you still get the error, there may be
>>> another bug.
>>>   
>>>       
>> Matt, i installed both daemons from source downloaded from the rsync
>>     
>
> Technically, only the receiver is a daemon; the sender is the client.
>
>   
>>  homepage. The output of rsync --version on both servers is attached
>> below. I was also confused by the error message stating that the
>> client is 2.6.9, what can you advise me to do?
>> Thanks!
>>     
>
> On each end, are you certain that the copy of rsync whose version you're
> checking is the same one involved in the file transfer?  For the client,
> prepend "rsync --version &&" to the command line.  For the daemon, look
> in its log file (or syslog in /var/log/messages if you didn't specify a
> log file) for a message of the form "rsyncd version X.X.X starting".  If
> you don't get the version you want, make sure that your custom-built
> rsync is first on the $PATH of the program that is running the client or
> starting the daemon.
>
> Matt
>   
Excellent! You were right on the spot.
Both ubuntu boxes installed 2.6.8 and 2.6.9 as packaged by ubuntu. I 
installed 3.0.2 from source but was still getting 2.6.8 and 2.6.9. So 
now instead of just calling rsync I call the full /usr/local/bin/rsync 
and get 3.0.2.
I will re-run my backups with this setup and post again with the results.
Thanks a lot!

Regards,
Alex

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Saludos,
Alejandro Celery
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