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<FONT FACE="Calibri, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial"><SPAN STYLE='font-size:11pt'>I have been using rsnapshot on OS X for a bit now to backup my debian home server to my external HD but have now started getting this error.<BR>
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Shiny:rsync-3.0.6 kurt$ sudo rsnapshot sync<BR>
/usr/bin/rsync -a --delete --numeric-ids --relative --delete-excluded \<BR>
--exclude=mtab --exclude=core --rsh="/usr/bin/ssh -i \<BR>
/Users/kurt/.ssh/id_rsa" <a href="root@home.thisisnotajoke.com:/home">root@home.thisisnotajoke.com:/home</a> \<BR>
/Volumes/Backup/.sync/server/ <BR>
<a href="root@home.thisisnotajoke.com's">root@home.thisisnotajoke.com's</a> password: <BR>
overflow: xflags=0x7a l1=255 l2=784 lastname=/home/cpanelBackup/cpbackup/daily/haspixie/homedir/public_html/wp-content/cache/supercache/icanhaspixiedust.com/category/characters-and-stars/mickey-mouse/http%3A/icanhaspixiedust.com/category/characters-and-stars/mickey-mouse/&r=http%3A/images.google.com/imgres%3Fimgurl%3Dhttp%3A/icanhaspixiedust.wordpress.com/files/2009/04/waltalittlehelp.jpg%26imgrefurl%3Dhttp%3A/icanhaspixiedust.com/category/characters-and-stars/mickey-mouse/%26usg%3D__x0Vi5fm7subadydrHNAEmp0zsgk%3D%26h%3D454%26w%3D600%26sz%3D84%26hl%3Den%26start%3D117%26um%3D1%26tbnid%3DWqq7BmZ7aNLuBM%3A%26tbnh%3D102%26tbnw%3D135%26prev%3D/images%253Fq%253DMickey%252527s%252BThe%252BMouse%252BFor%252BMe%2526ndsp%253D20%2526hl%253Den%2526client%253Dfirefox-a%2526channel%253Ds%2526rls%253Dorg.mozilla%3Aen-US%3Aofficial%2526sa%253DN%2526start%253D100%2526um%253D1/http%3A/icanhaspixiedust.com/category/characters-and-stars/mickey-mouse/http%253A/icanhaspixiedust.com/category/characters-and-stars/mickey-mouse/%26r%3Dhttp%253A/images.google.com [receiver]<BR>
ERROR: buffer overflow in recv_file_entry [receiver]<BR>
rsync error: error allocating core memory buffers (code 22) at util.c(124) [receiver=3.0.6]<BR>
overflow: xflags=0x7a l1=255 l2=784 lastname=/home/cpanelBackup/cpbackup/daily/haspixie/homedir/public_html/wp-content/cache/supercache/icanhaspixiedust.com/category/characters-and-stars/mickey-mouse/http%3A/icanhaspixiedust.com/category/characters-and-stars/mickey-mouse/&r=http%3A/images.google.com/imgres%3Fimgurl%3Dhttp%3A/icanhaspixiedust.wordpress.com/files/2009/04/waltalittlehelp.jpg%26imgrefurl%3Dhttp%3A/icanhaspixiedust.com/category/characters-and-stars/mickey-mouse/%26usg%3D__x0Vi5fm7subadydrHNAEmp0zsgk%3D%26h%3D454%26w%3D600%26sz%3D84%26hl%3Den%26start%3D117%26um%3D1%26tbnid%3DWqq7BmZ7aNLuBM%3A%26tbnh%3D102%26tbnw%3D135%26prev%3D/images%253Fq%253DMickey%252527s%252BThe%252BMouse%252BFor%252BMe%2526ndsp%253D20%2526hl%253Den%2526client%253Dfirefox-a%2526channel%253Ds%2526rls%253Dorg.mozilla%3Aen-US%3Aofficial%2526sa%253DN%2526start%253D100%2526um%253D1/http%3A/icanhaspixiedust.com/category/characters-and-stars/mickey-mouse/http%253A/icanhaspixiedust.com/category/characters-and-stars/mickey-mouse/%26r%3Dhttp%253A/images.google.com [generator]<BR>
ERROR: buffer overflow in recv_file_entry [generator]<BR>
rsync error: error allocating core memory buffers (code 22) at util.c(124) [generator=3.0.6]<BR>
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rsnapshot encountered an error! The program was invoked with these options:<BR>
/usr/local/bin/rsnapshot sync <BR>
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ERROR: /usr/bin/rsync returned 22 while processing <a href="root@home.thisisnotajoke.com:/home/">root@home.thisisnotajoke.com:/home/</a><BR>
touch /Volumes/Backup/.sync/ <BR>
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Kurt Nelson<BR>
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