the transfer fails to finish If you get an error like one of these: rsync: error writing 4 unbuffered bytes - exiting: Broken pipe rsync error: error in rsync protocol data stream (code 12) at io.c(463) or rsync: connection unexpectedly closed (24 bytes read so far) rsync error: error in rsync protocol data stream (code 12) at io.c(342) please read the issues and debugging page for details on how