Tomasz Chmielewski wrote at about 11:42:22 +0100 on Sunday, October 26, 2008:
> Jeffrey J. Kosowsky schrieb:
> > I have googled and read a lot of posts about people having trouble
> > with cygwin rsync/ssh but haven't seen any definitive solutions.
> >
> > For me, Backuppc repeatedly hangs after backing up the first dozen or
> > so files on any of my Windows machines. On any given machine, the hang
> > always occurs on the same file but the specific file that hangs
> > differs between machines. The file that it hangs on though seems to be
> > a normal file (i.e. not corrupted).
> >
> > When I run 'rsync -avuxH <windows machine>:/c/ <backup directory>',
> > the rsync process seems to copy over most directories (~12000/15000) but
> > only 13 files before it too hangs. (Interestingly, the files copied
> > over are not the same ones that get copied with Backuppc; also
> > Backuppc only copies over a couple of directories (not 12,000) before
> > hanging).
> >
> > I am using BackupPC-3.1.0 with rsync-2.6.9
> > The cygwin remote versions are:
> > OpenSSH_4.5p1, OpenSSL 0.9.8d 28 Sep 2006
> > rsync version 2.6.6 protocol version 29
> >
> > Has anybody figured out what is wrong with rsync/ssh and how to fix
> > it?
> > Are there other (free) versions of rsync/ssh for Windows that would
> > work better?
>
> Your Windows version of rsync is very outdated.
Oops I'm sorry. I'm actually using the following on the Windows machine:
rsync version 3.0.4 protocol version 30
OpenSSH_5.1p1, OpenSSL 0.9.8i 15 Sep 2008
> You may try the newest one from:
>
> www.itefix.no/cwrsync
>
>
>
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> Tomasz Chmielewski
> http://wpkg.org
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