rsync gives me error 12

[Adam Dinwoodie]

On Thu, Mar 24, 2022 at 12:22:12AM -0500, Neil Aggarwal wrote:
> I am trying to use rsync to pull all backups from a linux server
> to my local Windows machine.
> 
> I tried this rsync command:
> 
> $ rsync --debug=ALL -e ssh root@marketing.propfinancing.com:/var/www/svnDumps
> /cygdrive/c/Tmp
> 
> Here is the output:
> 
> opening connection using: ssh -l root marketing.propfinancing.com rsync
> --server --sender -e.LsfxCIvu . /var/www/svnDumps  (10 args)
> 
> rsync: connection unexpectedly closed (0 bytes received so far) [sender]
> 
> rsync error: error in rsync protocol data stream (code 12) at io.c(226)
> [sender=3.1.3]
> 
> rsync: connection unexpectedly closed (0 bytes received so far) [Receiver]
> 
> rsync error: error in rsync protocol data stream (code 12) at io.c(228)
> [Receiver=3.2.4dev]
> 
> [Receiver] _exit_cleanup(code=12, file=io.c, line=228): about to call
> exit(12)
> 
> From what I can find online, code 12 is insufficient disk space, missing
> remote
> rsync, or a connection error.   I don’t think any of those are the case
> here and the
> debug output is not helping me.
> 
> Any ideas what could be happening?

I suspect the `-e ssh` part is the problem here.  That's supposed to
specify the remote shell, not the method for connecting.  What are you
attempting to achieve with that?