Les Stott wrote at about 17:51:28 +1000 on Sunday, April 19, 2009:
 > Jeffrey J. Kosowsky wrote:
 > >  > >   
 > >  > Which rsync did you use to install on the windows 2008 server? cygwin 
 > >  > rsync 3.0.4 is broken and wont run. You need to downgrade to 2.6.9.
 > >  > 
 > >  > I successfully use rsyncd 2.6.9 from cygwin on windows 2008.
 > >  > 
 > >  > Regards,
 > >  > 
 > >  > Les
 > >  > 
 > >
 > > Is this problem specific to Windows 2008? Because I use cygwin
 > > rsync-3.0.4 just fine on Windows XP.
 > >
 > >   
 > i don't think so, never really delved too deeply into it, figured out 
 > that 2.6.9 worked, so rolled back in anticipation of the next release 
 > working.
 > 
 > Now that i come to think of it it may have been vista specific, but my 
 > information is second hand, so i cant say for sure.
 > 
 > Regards,
 > 
 > Les

All I can say is that 3.0.4 works perfectly fine on XP - in fact, it
avoids some problems that I had with 2.6.9 where the rsync process
hung on certain filenames if I recall.

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