Just to add to the archives I set up another Window 10 laptop, set up WSL but this time used OpenSUSE and rsync works fine.
On Sun, Sep 6, 2020 at 5:32 AM Todd C. Miller <[email protected]> wrote: > On Fri, 04 Sep 2020 22:57:03 -0700, Greg Thomas wrote: > > > Hey all, I'm trying to use WSL on Windows 10 to backup to my OpenBSD > server > > running 6.7 release. It looks like Debian on WSL is using rsync version > > 3.1.2. I tried both the rsync package and openrsync on OpenBSD with the > > same results. Basically rsync never exits and when I use four Vs for > > verbosity the last line is 'client_run waiting on..." rsync locally > works > > fine. > > Are you using WSL 1 or WSL 2? If possible, I'd suggest testing with WSL 2. > You can convert between WSL 1 and 2 pretty easily. > > - todd >
