Back In Time

Broken pipe ?

Asked by Philetjosie

I get the following error with Back in Time, but It does not give me any clue of what is wrong:

[E] Error: rsync: writefd_unbuffered failed to write 4 bytes to socket [sender]: Broken pipe (32)
[E] Failed to take snapshot 25/02/2011 19:13:03 !!!

I already have successfully made few backup, but since few days, I always get this error message. Anything I can do ?
Thanks a lot.

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Dan (danleweb) said : 		#1

This are the only lines containing errors ?
Can you check the full log ?

Regards,
Dan

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Philetjosie (philippe-quaglia) said : 		#2

Hello Dan,
this was lines of the errors log. I haven't kept the complete log.
However, I have tried again this evening, and this time, the backup as been performed successfully.
If I get the same problem again, then I will give you the complete log file.
Thanks for your help.

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Philetjosie (philippe-quaglia) said : 		#3

Hi Dan,
I got exactly the same problem during my last two attemps. The full error log is the following:

========== Take snapshot (profile 2): ven. 18 mars 2011 21:01:18 ==========

[E] Error: rsync: writefd_unbuffered failed to write 4 bytes to socket [sender]: Broken pipe (32)
[E] Failed to take snapshot 18/03/2011 21:01:18 !!!

The two last lines of the Change log are:

[C] >f.st...... media/Donnees/Comptes_PQ_Ferney.ods
[C] >f.st...... media/Donnees/Consos_Ornex.ods

And the begining lines and end lines of the informations log are:

I] ...
[I] Compare with snapshot 2011-03-06 20:47:23
[I] rsync -rtDH --links --no-p --no-g --no-o --delete --delete-excluded -i --dry-run --out-format="BACKINTIME: %i %n%L" --chmod=Du+wx --exclude="/media/IomegaHDD/BackInTimePQU" --exclude="/root/.local/share/backintime" --include="/media/Photos/" --include="/media/" --include="/media/Donnees/" --include="/home/philippe/" --include="/home/" --exclude=".gvfs" --exclude=".cache*" --exclude="[Cc]ache*" --exclude=".thumbnails*" --exclude="[Tt]rash*" --exclude="*.backup*" --exclude="*~" --exclude="/root/Ubuntu One" --exclude=".dropbox*" --include="/media/Photos/**" --include="/media/Donnees/**" --include="/home/philippe/**" --exclude="*" / "/media/IomegaHDD/BackInTimePQU/backintime/philippe-desktop/root/2/20110306-204723-100/backup/"
[I] Create hard-links
[I] cp -aRl "/media/IomegaHDD/BackInTimePQU/backintime/philippe-desktop/root/2/20110306-204723-100/backup/"* "/media/IomegaHDD/BackInTimePQU/backintime/philippe-desktop/root/2/new_snapshot/backup/"
[I] returns: 0
[I] Take snapshot
[I] rsync -rtDH --links --no-p --no-g --no-o --delete --delete-excluded -v --chmod=Du+wx --exclude="/media/IomegaHDD/BackInTimePQU" --exclude="/root/.local/share/backintime" --include="/media/Photos/" --include="/media/" --include="/media/Donnees/" --include="/home/philippe/" --include="/home/" --exclude=".gvfs" --exclude=".cache*" --exclude="[Cc]ache*" --exclude=".thumbnails*" --exclude="[Tt]rash*" --exclude="*.backup*" --exclude="*~" --exclude="/root/Ubuntu One" --exclude=".dropbox*" --include="/media/Photos/**" --include="/media/Donnees/**" --include="/home/philippe/**" --exclude="*" / "/media/IomegaHDD/BackInTimePQU/backintime/philippe-desktop/root/2/new_snapshot/backup/"
[I] Take snapshot (rsync: sending incremental file list)
[I] Take snapshot (rsync: ./)
[I] Take snapshot (rsync: home/philippe/)
....
....
[I] Take snapshot (rsync: deleting home/philippe/Musique/Téléphone/Dure limite/1 - Dure limite.ogg)
[I] Take snapshot (rsync: File-list index 26480 not in 13782 - 14887 (finish_hard_link) [generator])
[I] Take snapshot (rsync: rsync error: protocol incompatibility (code 2) at rsync.c(646) [generator=3.0.7])
[I] Take snapshot (rsync: rsync: connection unexpectedly closed (18882 bytes received so far) [sender])
[I] Take snapshot (rsync: rsync error: error in rsync protocol data stream (code 12) at io.c(601) [sender=3.0.7])

I hope this helps, it is a little obscur for me...
Best regards.

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Kent Knudsen (forestmountain) said : 		#4

There seems to be no answer or solution to this...?

I now have the same problem:

========== Take snapshot (profile 1): Fri Mar 9 17:36:18 2012 ==========

[E] Error: rsync: writefd_unbuffered failed to write 4 bytes to socket [sender]: Broken pipe (32)
[E] Failed to take snapshot 03/09/12 17:36:18 !!!

It seems that BackInTime can't handle a 50 GB virtuel disk (the file WinXP2.vdi). I don't know if it because it's too big. The virtual disk is intact and has no errors.

The full log (without all the files):

========== Take snapshot (profile 1): Fri Mar 9 17:36:18 2012 ==========

[I] ...
[I] Compare with snapshot 2011-11-16 13:31:15
[I] rsync -rtDH --links --no-p --no-g --no-o --delete --delete-excluded -i --dry-run --out-format="BACKINTIME: %i %n%L" --chmod=Du+wx --exclude="/media/d7760cdb-7ec1-4df0-b64f-91fa4faf922c" --exclude="/root/.local/share/backintime" --include="/home/" --exclude=".gvfs" --exclude=".cache*" --exclude="[Cc]ache*" --exclude=".thumbnails*" --exclude="[Tt]rash*" --exclude="*.backup*" --exclude="*~" --exclude="/root/Ubuntu One" --exclude=".dropbox*" --include="/home/**" --exclude="*" / "/media/d7760cdb-7ec1-4df0-b64f-91fa4faf922c/backintime/saturiks/root/1/20111116-133115-680/backup/"
....
....
[I] Take snapshot (rsync: home/ke/.VirtualBox/HardDisks/WinXP2.vdi)
[I] Take snapshot (rsync: rsync: writefd_unbuffered failed to write 4 bytes to socket [sender]: Broken pipe (32))
[E] Error: rsync: writefd_unbuffered failed to write 4 bytes to socket [sender]: Broken pipe (32)
[I] Take snapshot (rsync: deleting home/ke/.abrt/spool/oops-2011-09-12-02:17:29-1673-0/uuid)
[I] Take snapshot (rsync: deleting home/ke/.abrt/spool/oops-2011-09-12-02:17:29-1673-0/time)
[I] Take snapshot (rsync: deleting home/ke/.abrt/spool/oops-2011-09-12-02:17:29-1673-0/reported_to)
[I] Take snapshot (rsync: deleting home/ke/.abrt/spool/oops-2011-09-12-02:17:29-1673-0/reason)
[I] Take snapshot (rsync: deleting home/ke/.abrt/spool/oops-2011-09-12-02:17:29-1673-0/package)
[I] Take snapshot (rsync: deleting home/ke/.abrt/spool/oops-2011-09-12-02:17:29-1673-0/os_release)
[I] Take snapshot (rsync: deleting home/ke/.abrt/spool/oops-2011-09-12-02:17:29-1673-0/kernel_tainted_short)
[I] Take snapshot (rsync: deleting home/ke/.abrt/spool/oops-2011-09-12-02:17:29-1673-0/kernel_tainted_long)
[I] Take snapshot (rsync: deleting home/ke/.abrt/spool/oops-2011-09-12-02:17:29-1673-0/kernel_tainted)
[I] Take snapshot (rsync: deleting home/ke/.abrt/spool/oops-2011-09-12-02:17:29-1673-0/kernel)
[I] Take snapshot (rsync: deleting home/ke/.abrt/spool/oops-2011-09-12-02:17:29-1673-0/hostname)
[I] Take snapshot (rsync: deleting home/ke/.abrt/spool/oops-2011-09-12-02:17:29-1673-0/event_log)
[I] Take snapshot (rsync: deleting home/ke/.abrt/spool/oops-2011-09-12-02:17:29-1673-0/duphash)
[I] Take snapshot (rsync: deleting home/ke/.abrt/spool/oops-2011-09-12-02:17:29-1673-0/count)
[I] Take snapshot (rsync: deleting home/ke/.abrt/spool/oops-2011-09-12-02:17:29-1673-0/component)
[I] Take snapshot (rsync: deleting home/ke/.abrt/spool/oops-2011-09-12-02:17:29-1673-0/comment)
[I] Take snapshot (rsync: deleting home/ke/.abrt/spool/oops-2011-09-12-02:17:29-1673-0/cmdline)
[I] Take snapshot (rsync: deleting home/ke/.abrt/spool/oops-2011-09-12-02:17:29-1673-0/backtrace)
[I] Take snapshot (rsync: deleting home/ke/.abrt/spool/oops-2011-09-12-02:17:29-1673-0/architecture)
[I] Take snapshot (rsync: deleting home/ke/.abrt/spool/oops-2011-09-12-02:17:29-1673-0/analyzer)
[I] Take snapshot (rsync: deleting home/ke/.abrt/spool/oops-2011-09-12-02:17:29-1673-0/)
[I] Take snapshot (rsync: rsync: connection unexpectedly closed (2627 bytes received so far) [sender])
[I] Take snapshot (rsync: rsync error: error in rsync protocol data stream (code 12) at io.c(601) [sender=3.0.8])
[E] Failed to take snapshot 03/09/12 17:36:18 !!!

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Dan (danleweb) said : 		#5

What is your destination file-system ?

This seems to be a rsync problem:
http://www.webweavertech.com/ovidiu/weblog/archives/000486.html
http://forums.opensuse.org/english/get-technical-help-here/applications/469058-rsync-random-errors.html

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