rsync - Feb 2004 - error in rsync protocol data stream

I am trying to backup an entire disk to a USB-mounted disk, for backup
purposes. Many files are copied, but eventually rsync dies:

$ rsync -axHSv --delete /backup /media/sda1
...
rsync: connection unexpectedly closed (239508 bytes read so far)
rsync error: error in rsync protocol data stream (code 12) at io.c(189)

I am running Suse 9.0 and rsync 2.6.0 on an AMD-K6-2/450 (192MB RAM,
400MB swap). I ran fsck on the source and destination partitions
(ext3), and both are error-free.

Can anyone shed some light on what is going wrong? Thanks.
-- 
Ray Lischner, author of C++ in a Nutshell
http://www.tempest-sw.com/cpp

On Thursday 12 February 2004 12:44 pm, Ray Lischner wrote:
> I am trying to backup an entire disk to a USB-mounted disk, for backup
> purposes. Many files are copied, but eventually rsync dies:
I tried it again, and this time it fails at a different point and with a
different error:

$ rsync -axHSv --delete /backup /media/sda1
...
rsync: writefd_unbuffered failed to write 32768 bytes: phase
"unknown":
No buffer space available
rsync error: error in rsync protocol data stream (code 12) at io.c(666)

As I mentioned in my previous post, the system has 192MB RAM, 400MB
swap. The file system I am trying to copy takes up about 15GB.
-- 
Ray Lischner, author of C++ in a Nutshell
http://www.tempest-sw.com/cpp