Linux Punk wrote at about 16:53:09 -0600 on Wednesday, October 22, 2008:
 > On Sun, Oct 19, 2008 at 8:49 AM, Jeffrey J. Kosowsky
 > <backuppc AT kosowsky DOT org> wrote:
 > > 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.
 > >
 > I found this to be a bug with rsync launched from ssh. Even outside of
 > Backuppc we consistently found problems with rsync tunneled inside of
 > ssh. We would've liked to use ssh to encrypt all of our backups, but
 > ended up going with the straight rsyncd instead, which has worked
 > great.

I guess what I don't understand is why it works when I manually run
rsync over ssh.

The only difference that I can see is that when I run it manually I
don't use the "--server --sender" flags but instead use rsync
root@<target>.

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