Jeffrey J. Kosowsky schrieb:
> I have googled and read a lot of posts about people having trouble
> with cygwin rsync/ssh but haven't seen any definitive solutions.
> 
> For me, Backuppc repeatedly hangs after backing up the first dozen or
> so files on any of my Windows machines. On any given machine, the hang
> always occurs on the same file but the specific file that hangs
> differs between machines. The file that it hangs on though seems to be
> a normal file (i.e. not corrupted).
> 
> When I run 'rsync -avuxH <windows machine>:/c/ <backup directory>',
> the rsync process seems to copy over most directories (~12000/15000) but
> only 13 files before it too hangs. (Interestingly, the files copied
> over are not the same ones that get copied with Backuppc; also
> Backuppc only copies over a couple of directories (not 12,000) before 
> hanging).
>  
> 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
> 
> Has anybody figured out what is wrong with rsync/ssh and how to fix
> it?
> Are there other (free) versions of rsync/ssh for Windows that would
> work better?

Your Windows version of rsync is very outdated.
You may try the newest one from:

www.itefix.no/cwrsync



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Tomasz Chmielewski
http://wpkg.org

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