[rdiff-backup-users] restoring files

[Mal Beaton]

I am not sure whether to file this as a bug against debian or if I am 
doing something wrong

using rdiff-backup 0.13.4
from debian/backports

server1 backing up to backups

backup works ok

backups$ rdiff-backup --list-changed-since 5D  home/mjb
works fine

restore from backups on backups

backups$ rdiff-backup -r 1D rdiffdir/home/mjb/update-aide 
rdiffdir/home/mjb/newaide

works fine and the file newaide is the version from one day ago
however
on server1

server1$ rdiff-backup -r 1D backups::/rdiffdir/home/mjb/update-aide 
/home/mjb/newaide fails

rdiff-backup --test-server backups::/rdiffdir                 Testing 
server started by:  ssh -C backups rdiff-backup --server
Server OK

error from the restore

rdiff-backup -r 1D backups::/rdiffdir/home/mjb/update-aide /home/mjb/newaide
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/bin/rdiff-backup", line 23, in ?
    rdiff_backup.Main.Main(sys.argv[1:])
  File 
"/home/tretkowski/rdiff-backup/rdiff-backup-0.13.4/debian/rdiff-backup/usr/lib/python2.2/site-packages/rdiff_backup/Main.py", 
line 259, in Main
  File 
"/home/tretkowski/rdiff-backup/rdiff-backup-0.13.4/debian/rdiff-backup/usr/lib/python2.2/site-packages/rdiff_backup/Main.py", 
line 239, in take_action
  File 
"/home/tretkowski/rdiff-backup/rdiff-backup-0.13.4/debian/rdiff-backup/usr/lib/python2.2/site-packages/rdiff_backup/Main.py", 
line 451, in Restore
AssertionError
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/bin/rdiff-backup", line 23, in ?
    rdiff_backup.Main.Main(sys.argv[1:])
  File 
"/home/tretkowski/rdiff-backup/rdiff-backup-0.13.4/debian/rdiff-backup/usr/lib/python2.2/site-packages/rdiff_backup/Main.py", 
line 259, in Main
  File 
"/home/tretkowski/rdiff-backup/rdiff-backup-0.13.4/debian/rdiff-backup/usr/lib/python2.2/site-packages/rdiff_backup/Main.py", 
line 227, in take_action
  File 
"/home/tretkowski/rdiff-backup/rdiff-backup-0.13.4/debian/rdiff-backup/usr/lib/python2.2/site-packages/rdiff_backup/connection.py", 
line 352, in Server
  File 
"/home/tretkowski/rdiff-backup/rdiff-backup-0.13.4/debian/rdiff-backup/usr/lib/python2.2/site-packages/rdiff_backup/connection.py", 
line 314, in get_response
  File 
"/home/tretkowski/rdiff-backup/rdiff-backup-0.13.4/debian/rdiff-backup/usr/lib/python2.2/site-packages/rdiff_backup/connection.py", 
line 230, in _get
rdiff_backup.connection.ConnectionReadError: Truncated header string 
(problem probably originated remotely)

I have checked server logs on backups and cant find anything that shows 
any rdiff problems

can anyone point me in the right direction