diff --git a/Cargo.toml b/Cargo.toml
index dc2eec57..b718fe83 100644
--- a/Cargo.toml
+++ b/Cargo.toml
@@ -36,7 +36,7 @@ uuid = { version = "0.7", features = ["v4"] }
 chrono = "0.4" # Date and time library for Rust
 openssl = "0.10"
 siphasher = "0.3"
-endian_trait = "0.6"
+endian_trait = { version = "0.6", features = ["arrays"] }
 walkdir = "2"
 md5 = "0.6"
 base64 = "0.10"
diff --git a/proxmox-protocol/Cargo.toml b/proxmox-protocol/Cargo.toml
index 7f67554f..5f995479 100644
--- a/proxmox-protocol/Cargo.toml
+++ b/proxmox-protocol/Cargo.toml
@@ -12,7 +12,7 @@ crate-type = ['lib', 'cdylib']
 
 [dependencies]
 chrono = "0.4"
-endian_trait = "0.6"
+endian_trait = { version = "0.6", features = ["arrays"] }
 errno = "0.2"
 failure = "0.1"
 libc = "0.2"
diff --git a/proxmox-protocol/src/protocol.rs b/proxmox-protocol/src/protocol.rs
index c1169f83..fd28d120 100644
--- a/proxmox-protocol/src/protocol.rs
+++ b/proxmox-protocol/src/protocol.rs
@@ -165,16 +165,13 @@ pub mod server {
 
     pub const PROTOCOL_VERSION: u32 = 1;
 
-    #[derive(Eq, PartialEq)]
-    #[repr(C, packed)]
-    pub struct HelloMagic([u8; 8]);
-    pub const HELLO_MAGIC: HelloMagic = HelloMagic(*b"PMXBCKUP");
+    pub const HELLO_MAGIC: [u8; 8] = *b"PMXBCKUP";
 
     pub const HELLO_VERSION: u32 = 1; // the current version
     #[derive(Endian)]
     #[repr(C, packed)]
     pub struct Hello {
-        pub magic: HelloMagic,
+        pub magic: [u8; 8],
         pub version: u32,
     }
 
@@ -191,21 +188,6 @@ pub mod server {
         // Data follows here...
     }
 
-    impl Endian for HelloMagic {
-        fn to_be(self) -> Self {
-            self
-        }
-        fn to_le(self) -> Self {
-            self
-        }
-        fn from_be(self) -> Self {
-            self
-        }
-        fn from_le(self) -> Self {
-            self
-        }
-    }
-
     #[derive(Endian)]
     #[repr(C, packed)]
     pub struct BackupCreated {