error in rsync protocol data stream (code 12) at io.c(605) [Receiver=3.0.9]

Question

I'm trying to rsync data from one ubuntu box to another, but whenever I try to run the command, I get the error,

error in rsync protocol data stream (code 12) at io.c(605) [Receiver=3.0.9]

I've seen people get io.c(600) and 610 errors in various other places around the web, but nothing about a 605 error. What's the cause of this issue? How can it be fixed?

The command i'm running is

/usr/bin/rsync -az -e /usr/bin/ssh user@remote:filename /path/to/local/filename

Answer 1

Make sure rsync is installed on remote server also.

Same issue was occurred but disappear after installing rsync on remote server. Without rsync on Remote server how it will work?

Answer 2

According to this it's an official bug. At the bottom of the page, one victim of the bug mentions he doesn't get it when the file he's trying to send is < 100 GB or when he uses the -W flag on the client (which indicates whole file copy, rather than rsync delta resolution; basically, turns rsync into little better than scp).