rsync incremental backup probs

[Sean M. Kaiser]

I am having a problem with implementing a slight modification of the
"backup to a central backup server with 7 day incremental" example from
<http://rsync.samba.org/examples.html>.  When rsync runs, I end up getting
stat errors that the file doesn't exist in the backup-dir location.  The
backup server is running rsyncd, and without the --backup and --backup-dir
options set, I get a good clean backup.

I'm also not quite clear on the fact that from the stat error messages
(below), the --backup-dir option is not clearing the --suffix option as
stated in the man page.  I'm thinking maybe I have an issue somewhere
involving the --backup-dir option.

My rsync command looks like this (from tonight's attempts):

backup: command /usr/bin/rsync --force --ignore-errors --delete-excluded
--exclude-from=/etc/rsync/exclude.txt --delete --backup --backup-dir=/tue
-a --eahfs --numeric-ids --password-file=/etc/rsync/secure.txt --stats
--delete-after --bwlimit=120 -z / puma at rsyncserver::puma/current

The stat error messages look like this (snipped for bandwidth
considerations):

stat "tue/private/var/db/dhcpd_leases~" (in puma) failed: No such file or
directory
stat "tue/private/var/log/cups/access_log~" (in puma) failed: No such file
or directory
stat "tue/private/var/log/cups/access_log.O~" (in puma) failed: No such
file or directory
stat "tue/private/var/log/daily.out~" (in puma) failed: No such file or
directory
stat "tue/private/var/log/diskspacemonitor.log~" (in puma) failed: No such
file or directory
stat "tue/private/var/log/mail.log~" (in puma) failed: No such file or
directory
stat "tue/private/var/log/system.log~" (in puma) failed: No such file or
directory
stat "tue/private/var/log/system.log.0.gz~" (in puma) failed: No such file
or directory

The module root for the above module looks like this (via ls -al):

drwxr-xr-x   8 root  admin  272 Feb 12 13:27 .
drwxrwx---  16 root  admin  544 Feb 20 11:38 ..
drwxrwxr-t  24 root  admin  816 Feb  2 11:24 current
drwxr-xr-x   2 root  wheel   68 Feb 20 16:15 fri
drwxr-xr-x   2 root  wheel   68 Feb 23 16:15 mon
drwxr-xr-x   2 root  wheel   68 Feb 19 16:15 thu
drwxr-xr-x   2 root  wheel   68 Feb 24 16:15 tue
drwxr-xr-x   2 root  wheel   68 Feb 18 16:15 wed

The rsyncd.conf file section for the above module is:

logfile                 = /var/log/rsyncd.log
pidfile                 = /var/run/rsyncd.pid
lockfile                = /var/run/rsyncd.lock
secrets file            = /etc/rsyncd.secrets
uid                     = root
transfer logging        = no

[puma]
path                    = /Volumes/backups/xserves/puma
comment                 = Puma Xserve backup space
auth users              = puma
read only               = no

The --stats output provides:

Number of files: 62552
Number of files transferred: 38
Total file size: 1522090824 bytes
Total transferred file size: 3095727 bytes
Literal data: 2152606 bytes
Matched data: 951076 bytes
File list size: 2828136
Total bytes written: 2961050
Total bytes read: 25891

wrote 2961050 bytes  read 25891 bytes  7649.02 bytes/sec
total size is 1522090824  speedup is 509.58
rsync error: some files could not be transferred (code 23) at main.c(639)
backup: rsync complete from puma at Tue Feb 24 16:21:34 EST 2004, status=23

I am running 2.6.0 (via RsyncX 2.0 for Mac OS X) on Mac OS X servers
(10.2.8 on both ends).

Any assistance is greatly appreciated.  I have searched the archives and
faq-o-matic and can't seem to find anything.

Sean