Rsnapshot/rsync buffer overflow

Kurtis Nelson kurtisnelson at gmail.com
Thu Jul 16 22:16:29 MDT 2009


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.

Shiny:rsync-3.0.6 kurt$ sudo rsnapshot sync
/usr/bin/rsync -a --delete --numeric-ids --relative --delete-excluded \
    --exclude=mtab --exclude=core --rsh="/usr/bin/ssh -i \
    /Users/kurt/.ssh/id_rsa" root at home.thisisnotajoke.com:/home \
    /Volumes/Backup/.sync/server/
root at home.thisisnotajoke.com's password:
overflow: xflags=0x7a l1=255 l2=784
lastname=/home/cpanelBackup/cpbackup/daily/haspixie/homedir/public_html/wp-c
ontent/cache/supercache/icanhaspixiedust.com/category/characters-and-stars/m
ickey-mouse/http%3A/icanhaspixiedust.com/category/characters-and-stars/micke
y-mouse/&r=http%3A/images.google.com/imgres%3Fimgurl%3Dhttp%3A/icanhaspixied
ust.wordpress.com/files/2009/04/waltalittlehelp.jpg%26imgrefurl%3Dhttp%3A/ic
anhaspixiedust.com/category/characters-and-stars/mickey-mouse/%26usg%3D__x0V
i5fm7subadydrHNAEmp0zsgk%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%253
Dorg.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%3
Dhttp%253A/images.google.com [receiver]
ERROR: buffer overflow in recv_file_entry [receiver]
rsync error: error allocating core memory buffers (code 22) at util.c(124)
[receiver=3.0.6]
overflow: xflags=0x7a l1=255 l2=784
lastname=/home/cpanelBackup/cpbackup/daily/haspixie/homedir/public_html/wp-c
ontent/cache/supercache/icanhaspixiedust.com/category/characters-and-stars/m
ickey-mouse/http%3A/icanhaspixiedust.com/category/characters-and-stars/micke
y-mouse/&r=http%3A/images.google.com/imgres%3Fimgurl%3Dhttp%3A/icanhaspixied
ust.wordpress.com/files/2009/04/waltalittlehelp.jpg%26imgrefurl%3Dhttp%3A/ic
anhaspixiedust.com/category/characters-and-stars/mickey-mouse/%26usg%3D__x0V
i5fm7subadydrHNAEmp0zsgk%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%253
Dorg.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%3
Dhttp%253A/images.google.com [generator]
ERROR: buffer overflow in recv_file_entry [generator]
rsync error: error allocating core memory buffers (code 22) at util.c(124)
[generator=3.0.6]
----------------------------------------------------------------------------
rsnapshot encountered an error! The program was invoked with these options:
/usr/local/bin/rsnapshot sync
----------------------------------------------------------------------------
ERROR: /usr/bin/rsync returned 22 while processing
root at home.thisisnotajoke.com:/home/
touch /Volumes/Backup/.sync/

-- 
Kurt Nelson
(407) 512-0689
http://claimid.com/kurtisnelson

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