Author: "David Christensen" <dpchrist AT holgerdanske DOT com>
Date: Mon, 16 Feb 2009 12:56:20 -0800
backuppc-users: I am a BackupPC newbie who has installed BackupPC on a dedicated Debian 4 machine and is successfully backing up Linux and FreeBSD machines via ssh/ rsync. Good stuff! :-) However, wh
Hi David, This is a known problem with ssh/rsync on Cygwin. Use rsyncd on the windows client instead and if you want ssh, set up a tunnel before hand. Here is a guide that will be on the wiki soon: h
Author: Carl Wilhelm Soderstrom <chrome AT real-time DOT com>
Date: Mon, 16 Feb 2009 15:06:21 -0600
Last I knew, there was still a bug in cygwin ssh+rsync that prevented it from working. -- Carl Soderstrom Systems Administrator Real-Time Enterprises www.real-time.com -- Open Source Business Confere
Author: "David Christensen" <dpchrist AT holgerdanske DOT com>
Date: Mon, 16 Feb 2009 13:57:11 -0800
Which states: Regular rsync over SSH doesn't work between Linux and Windows/Cygwin boxes because of a bug fixed in rsync 3.0 On Debian 4, I see: 2009-02-16 13:37:56 root@p3450 ~ rsync version 2.6.9 p
Hi David, The following line says the problem still remains with BackupPC, though. I'm not sure if plain rsync 3.0/ssh works over cygwin, but it definitely doesn't with BackupPC, which uses the File:
Author: royden yates <royden.yates AT gmail DOT com>
Date: Tue, 17 Feb 2009 00:56:11 +0100
Concerning Backuppc and Windows systems, the issues pertained to the interaction of Cygwin rsync < 3.0.0 and AFAIK Backuppc's perl implementation of rsync. If issues remain with a cygwin rsync >= 3.0
Author: royden yates <royden.yates AT gmail DOT com>
Date: Tue, 17 Feb 2009 01:05:53 +0100
The traditional problem with Backuppc and cygwin of a rsync over ssh freeze on any sizeable back up has disappeared with Cygwin and rsync 3.0.3 and greater, as one can get a completed run. I had mach
Author: "Jeffrey J. Kosowsky" <backuppc AT kosowsky DOT org>
Date: Mon, 16 Feb 2009 19:21:58 -0500
David Christensen wrote at about 12:56:20 -0800 on Monday, February 16, 2009: You might want to also STFA (A=archives) because this problem has been discussed MANY times before ;) -- Open Source Busi
Author: "Jeffrey J. Kosowsky" <backuppc AT kosowsky DOT org>
Date: Mon, 16 Feb 2009 19:24:20 -0500
David Christensen wrote at about 13:57:11 -0800 on Monday, February 16, 2009: No the problem is the perl library perl-File-RsyncP does not work with protocol 30 (the rsync 3.0 protocol) so it reverts