[rdiff-backup-users] Having problems creating a backup

[A. Eijkhoudt]

Hello all,

I've been searching the mailing list archives for a while already and 
I'm a little bit stumped...

I keep getting the following error when trying to make a backup of a new 
system:

Exception 'Truncated header string (problem probably originated 
remotely)' raised of class '<class 
'rdiff_backup.connection.ConnectionReadError'>':
  File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/rdiff_backup/Main.py", line 
304, in error_check_Main
    try: Main(arglist)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/rdiff_backup/Main.py", line 
324, in Main
    take_action(rps)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/rdiff_backup/Main.py", line 
280, in take_action
    elif action == "backup": Backup(rps[0], rps[1])
  File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/rdiff_backup/Main.py", line 
346, in Backup
    backup.Mirror(rpin, rpout)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/rdiff_backup/backup.py", line 
38, in Mirror
    DestS.patch(dest_rpath, source_diffiter)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/rdiff_backup/connection.py", 
line 450, in __call__
    return apply(self.connection.reval, (self.name,) + args)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/rdiff_backup/connection.py", 
line 368, in reval
    result = self.get_response(req_num)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/rdiff_backup/connection.py", 
line 315, in get_response
    try: req_num, object = self._get()
  File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/rdiff_backup/connection.py", 
line 233, in _get
    raise ConnectionReadError("Truncated header string (problem "

The rdiff-backup and Python versions match on both systems. It keeps 
doing this at a random point during the backup too. It does this both 
when running as a background process (cron'd) or manually from the 
command-line, regardless of the verbosity level I've set.

Can anyone point me in the right direction?

Kind regards,

A. Eijkhoudt