On Sun, Oct 26, 2008 at 4:49 AM, Steen Eugen Poulsen <sep AT lix-world DOT net> 
wrote:
> Jeffrey J. Kosowsky skrev:
>>
>> I have googled and read a lot of posts about people having trouble
>> with cygwin rsync/ssh but haven't seen any definitive solutions.
>
> I don't think it has anything to do with cygwin or how you backup windows
> machines, it's just that we keep running into file lock issues that messes
> up backups.

I would tend to disagree because we have dozens of machines that
backup successfully using rsyncd server (no ssh) but we ran into
exactly the issues described when tunneling rsync in ssh. If it was a
problem with locked files affecting rsync, we would see those problems
in both instances. We've also tried backing up dummy directories that
have no open files in them, and had that fail with rsync/ssh.

> To successfully backup Windows machine I need a huge exclude list, without
> it things always seem to be very troubled.

We have a short exclude list, but we still get lots of failures on
various files that should probably be excluded. We have no problems
with the backups locking up on only certain files though.

Brian Oborn

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