I am using the rsync-method to back up the C-drive on a WinXP machine.
I have cygwin ssh & rsync installed on the remote machine.


The backup repeatedly stalls after backing up:
        .file_store_32/runescape/main_file_cache.dat1
and in the middle (presumably) of backing up:
        .file_store_32/runescape/main_file_cache.dat2
This occurs only about a dozen files into the backup.


The verbose output is as follows:
full backup started for directory /c/
started full dump, share=/c/
Running: /usr/bin/ssh -q -x -l kosowsky mywinxppc /usr/bin/rsync --server 
--sender --numeric-ids --perms --owner --group -D --links --hard-links --times 
--block-size=2048 --recursive --checksum-seed=32761 --one-file-system 
--omit-dir-times --ignore-times . /c/
Xfer PIDs are now 24412
xferPids 24412
Got remote protocol 29pp
Negotiated protocol version 28
Checksum caching enabled (checksumSeed = 32761)
Sent exclude: "/Documents and Settings/*/Local Settings/Temp/*"
Sent exclude: "/Documents and Settings/*/Local Settings/Temporary Internet 
Files/*"
Sent exclude: "/System Volume Information"
Sent exclude: /pagefile.sys
Sent exclude: /hiberfil.sys
Sent exclude: /RECYCLER
Remote[2]: file has vanished: "/c/Documents and Settings/User1/My Documents/My 
Music/iTunes/iTunes Music/???? 7 - ??? ?????? ???????"
Remote[1]: rsync: opendir "/c/Documents and Settings/User2/Application 
Data/Thunderbird/Profiles/9n4fftcz.default/Mail/User3" failed: No such file or 
directory (2)
Remote[2]: file has vanished: "/c/Documents and 
Settings/User2/Favorites/Computer/broadband + Forums + Linksys + BEFSR41.url"
Remote[2]: file has vanished: "/c/Documents and Settings/User4/Application 
Data/Microsoft/Office/Recent/????? ?????? ?'.LNK"
.... (plus about 20 more messages like the above)
....
Xfer PIDs are now 24412,24448
xferPids 24412,24448
  create d 775   544/544           0 .
  create d 700  1010/513           0 .file_store_32
  create   700  1010/513      211957 .file_store_32/code.dat
  create   700  1010/513      768989 .file_store_32/main_file_cache.dat
  create   700  1010/513          54 .file_store_32/main_file_cache.idx0
  create   700  1010/513           0 .file_store_32/main_file_cache.idx1
  create   700  1010/513           0 .file_store_32/main_file_cache.idx2
  create   700  1010/513           0 .file_store_32/main_file_cache.idx3
  create   700  1010/513           0 .file_store_32/main_file_cache.idx4
  create   700  1009/513       61436 .file_store_32/music0.mid
  create d 700  1009/513           0 .file_store_32/runescape
  create   700  1009/513      209734 
.file_store_32/runescape/main_file_cache.dat1

I have no problem using plain vanilla 'rsync -auxH mywinxppc:/c/ ." to
backup the files.

Again it is frustrating that Backuppc seems to be so fragile in that
it just seemingly hangs when it gets stuck on a file failing to either
give any error messages (unless you manually run BackupPC_dump) or to
explain what is wrong or to just skip the offending files and move on.

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

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