On Mon, 9 May 2022 at 10:53, AC <debusersq...@acarver.net> wrote: > On 2022-05-08 16:45, David wrote: > > On Mon, 9 May 2022 at 07:24, AC <debusersq...@acarver.net> wrote:
> Now here's a new discovery on the machines having problems: as a normal > user I can rsync just fine to a remote machine. But if I'm using rsync > as root to send a backup to a remote machine, I get the rdiff-backup > problem. The other machines have no issues whether I'm a regular user > or root. Ok. In that case, I would run again the check commands I gave, but this time as root, just to see if there is any difference. I don't know the cause of your problem, but these commands are useful investigation to reveal what "rsync" means when the particular user runs that command.