Apparently, my issue is not as solved as hoped. The service does start up fine
now, and doing an rsync --list-only to another machine lists the contents of
the module on the remote machine just fine, but when trying to perform a backup
of this machine with BackupPC (and even when trying to do
Sorry I can't directly help (since I don't have a Win8 machine). But if
someone can figure out the right set of cygwin files and the right recipe -
ideally one that works across Win8, Win7 etc - then I would be happy to
update the recently released cygwin-rsyncd package (which was helpfully
