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Error: rsync: writefd_unbuffered failed to write 4 bytes to socket

Asked by ottadini

I have version 1.0.2 from the bit-team PPA on Ubuntu 9.10.
My snapshot is of ~, i.e. the includes screen simply has /home/ben, while the exclude screen has several dirs, a couple with wildcards.
I am running it as a normal user.
My backup destination is a USB drive. Here is the output of mount:

/dev/sdb1 on /media/NexStarLite type ext4 (rw,nosuid,nodev,uhelper=devkit)

Here is the output of the BiT error log:

========== Take snapshot (profile 1): Mon Oct 18 00:00:01 2010 ==========

[E] Error: rsync: writefd_unbuffered failed to write 4 bytes to socket [sender]: Broken pipe (32)
[E] Failed to take snapshot 10/18/10 00:00:01 !!!

I don't really know where to start to fix this.

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Dan (danleweb) said : 		#1

Did you exclude ".gvfs" ?

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ottadini (ben-harrison) said : 		#2

No i didn't.
I have now, but why is it necessary? I didn't see any docs mentioning this, but I haven't read everything yet.

Following adding '*.gvfs' as an exclude, I get the same error as before and some additional errors (note that the backup drive NexStarLite is effectively empty, and has more than enough capacity):

========== Take snapshot (profile 1): Tue 19 Oct 2010 14:37:21 ==========

[E] Error: rsync: writefd_unbuffered failed to write 4 bytes to socket [sender]: Broken pipe (32)
[E] Error: rsync: write failed on "/media/NexStarLite/backintime/ottadini/ben/1/new_snapshot/backup/home/ben/.VirtualBox/HardDisks/Windows XP 512MB.vdi": No space left on device (28)
[E] Error: rsync: recv_generator: mkdir "/media/NexStarLite/backintime/ottadini/ben/1/new_snapshot/backup/home/ben/.evolution/mail/local/.#evolution.sbd" failed: No space left on device (28)
[E] Error: rsync: recv_generator: mkdir "/media/NexStarLite/backintime/ottadini<email address hidden>" failed: No space left on device (28)
[E] Error: rsync: recv_generator: mkdir "/media/NexStarLite/backintime/ottadini/ben/1/new_snapshot/backup/home/ben/.evolution/memos/config" failed: No space left on device (28)
[E] Error: rsync: recv_generator: mkdir "/media/NexStarLite/backintime/ottadini/ben/1/new_snapshot/backup/home/ben/.evolution/memos/local" failed: No space left on device (28)
[E] Error: rsync: recv_generator: mkdir "/media/NexStarLite/backintime/ottadini/ben/1/new_snapshot/backup/home/ben/.evolution/memos/views" failed: No space left on device (28)
[E] Error: rsync: recv_generator: mkdir "/media/NexStarLite/backintime/ottadini/ben/1/new_snapshot/backup/home/ben/.evolution/tasks/config" failed: No space left on device (28)
[E] Error: rsync: recv_generator: mkdir "/media/NexStarLite/backintime/ottadini/ben/1/new_snapshot/backup/home/ben/.evolution/tasks/local" failed: No space left on device (28)
[E] Error: rsync: recv_generator: mkdir "/media/NexStarLite/backintime/ottadini/ben/1/new_snapshot/backup/home/ben/.evolution/tasks/tasks" failed: No space left on device (28)
[E] Error: rsync: recv_generator: mkdir "/media/NexStarLite/backintime/ottadini/ben/1/new_snapshot/backup/home/ben/.fltk/fltk.org" failed: No space left on device (28)
[E] Failed to take snapshot 19/10/10 14:37:21 !!!

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Best Dan (danleweb) said : 		#3

1. ".gvfs" is excluded by default for new installs. The problem with ".gvfs" is that is contains mount points owned by root so you don't have the right to read them.
There should be some help to show "recommended excludes".

2. Please run "df -h" to check disk free on "/media/NexStarLite" (rsync complain that there is not enough free space).

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ottadini (ben-harrison) said : 		#4

What is a 'new install' in this case? Is version 1.0.2 new enough?
Or is it because I had config files left over from an older version?

I sorted the disk space problem (foolish error), and the snapshot now works!

Thanks.

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ottadini (ben-harrison) said : 		#5

Thanks Dan, that solved my question.