Comment 9 for bug 1384503

I can confirm I still get this error on Ubuntu 14.04 (all up to date)
rsync:
Both machines: 3.1.0-2ubuntu0.1

File is a .sql.gz file, 1.5 GB in size, as above, --skip-compress=gz doesn't help:

.....
dbdump.sql.gz
              0 0% 0.00kB/s 0:00:00
inflate returned -3 (0 bytes)
rsync error: error in rsync protocol data stream (code 12) at token.c(557) [receiver=3.1.0]
rsync: connection unexpectedly closed (4092364 bytes received so far) [generator]
rsync error: error in rsync protocol data stream (code 12) at io.c(226) [generator=3.1.0]