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I am seeing the same on my Windows XP master-slave setup. I am running latest Hudson ver. 1.363
I am using the close-workspace-scm plugin to copy my workspace from master to slave(150).

Started by user anonymous
Building remotely on 150
FATAL: hudson.remoting.RequestAbortedException: java.io.IOException: Unexpected termination of the channel
hudson.remoting.RequestAbortedException: hudson.remoting.RequestAbortedException: java.io.IOException: Unexpected termination of the channel
at hudson.remoting.Request.call(Request.java:137)
at hudson.remoting.Channel.call(Channel.java:555)
at hudson.FilePath.act(FilePath.java:742)
at hudson.FilePath.act(FilePath.java:735)
at hudson.FilePath.unzip(FilePath.java:415)
at hudson.FileSystemProvisioner$Default$WorkspaceSnapshotImpl.restoreTo(FileSystemProvisioner.java:227)
at hudson.plugins.cloneworkspace.CloneWorkspaceSCM$Snapshot.restoreTo(CloneWorkspaceSCM.java:344)
at hudson.plugins.cloneworkspace.CloneWorkspaceSCM.checkout(CloneWorkspaceSCM.java:126)
at hudson.model.AbstractProject.checkout(AbstractProject.java:1044)
at hudson.model.AbstractBuild$AbstractRunner.checkout(AbstractBuild.java:479)
at hudson.model.AbstractBuild$AbstractRunner.run(AbstractBuild.java:411)
at hudson.model.Run.run(Run.java:1253)
at hudson.model.FreeStyleBuild.run(FreeStyleBuild.java:46)
at hudson.model.ResourceController.execute(ResourceController.java:88)
at hudson.model.Executor.run(Executor.java:127)
Caused by: hudson.remoting.RequestAbortedException: java.io.IOException: Unexpected termination of the channel
at hudson.remoting.Request.abort(Request.java:257)
at hudson.remoting.Channel.terminate(Channel.java:602)
at hudson.remoting.Channel$ReaderThread.run(Channel.java:893)
Caused by: java.io.IOException: Unexpected termination of the channel
at hudson.remoting.Channel$ReaderThread.run(Channel.java:875)
Caused by: java.io.EOFException
at java.io.ObjectInputStream$BlockDataInputStream.peekByte(Unknown Source)
at java.io.ObjectInputStream.readObject0(Unknown Source)
at java.io.ObjectInputStream.readObject(Unknown Source)
at hudson.remoting.Channel$ReaderThread.run(Channel.java:869)