Tomasz Chmielewski wrote at about 11:42:22 +0100 on Sunday, October 26, 2008:
 > 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 Your Windows version of rsync is very outdated.
Oops I'm sorry. I'm actually using the following on the Windows machine:
         rsync version 3.0.4 protocol version 30
         OpenSSH_5.1p1, OpenSSL 0.9.8i 15 Sep 2008

 > You may try the newest one from:
 > 
 > www.itefix.no/cwrsync
 > 
 > 
 > 
 > -- 
 > Tomasz Chmielewski
 > http://wpkg.org
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