On Wed, October 4, 2006 13:25, Gabriel Gunderson wrote: > On Wed, 2006-10-04 at 15:12 -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> This is bad. If you mount the drive you may as well use cp or copy or >> xcopy. The real strength of rsync is its extremely low level of >> network traffic to sync the data. To do this rsync does checksums on >> the data so if you run it over a mounted volume it will read all of >> the date across the wire. Rsync runs best when there are two >> instances of rsync running, one on each machine to be synchronized. >> This way only checksums are passed over the wire before any data is >> copied. > > Good eye. I was trying to be creative and make it as transparent as > possible on the Windows box. But, you're right, this would not be a > good solution. Hmm, back to the drawing board.
I appreciate everyones' useful comments. I've revisited cygwin with rsync and tried using CYGWIN=nontsec with no luck. I double, triple, quadruple checked everything out. I still have found nothing that is indicating the core problem. I'm still having the same problem where it is just downloading directories and no files. Eventually it will get to a seemingly random point and hang. All my googling still points to a bug in cygwin on XP SP2. I am still exploring the other options, but let this be a lesson to all those proprietary OS vendors out there... rsync seems to be a very very difficult tool to replace. In my opinion there just isn't another tool that offers the same value. I will continue to investiage all of the other options presented. So far my next step will be testing the following setup: Use Unison (thanks Jake) to sync Linux and Windows. After the sync use LVM to create a snapshot rolling backwards in time. I like the idea of using LVM for snaps compared to rsync as from what I understand it uses real block level snapshots. Rsync doesn't really do snapshotting, it does hard linking. I think we say snapshot just for the ease of communication, but it is not the same at all. Thank you all who have contributed to the conversation. I have carefully read each reply and have appriciated the comments thus far. -Ryan /* PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/options/plug Don't fear the penguin. */
