September 30, 2017

Fixing rsync error: error in rsync protocol data stream

I use rsync (wrapped in a script) to back up the data to a Western Digital MyCloud device from my Fedora system. At times I have seen rsync errors "rsync error: error in rsync protocol data stream (code 12) at io.c(226) [sender=3.1.2]" during backup.


As the error was appearing sporadically, it was not a configuration or setup issue. Finally I tried passing protocol parameter to rsync and it worked. The rsync in my Fedora system uses protocol 31 by default and the one in WD device supports 30 by default. Setting --protocol=30 didn't help but setting protocol to 26 resolved the problem. I've been running rsync using protocol 26 for few weeks and haven't seen the errors.



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