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Re: [BackupPC-users] rsync with windows/cygwin

2010-09-14 08:56:43
Subject: Re: [BackupPC-users] rsync with windows/cygwin
From: Les Mikesell <lesmikesell AT gmail DOT com>
To: backuppc-users AT lists.sourceforge DOT net
Date: Tue, 14 Sep 2010 07:53:59 -0500
On 9/14/10 6:05 AM, Sorin Srbu wrote:
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Michael MH. Heel [mailto:mh AT heel-data DOT de]
>> Sent: Tuesday, September 14, 2010 11:07 AM
>> To: backuppc-users AT lists.sourceforge DOT net
>> Subject: [BackupPC-users] rsync with windows/cygwin
>>
>> Hello. I am testing BackupPC since a few days for backing up Windows PCs.
>>
>> Most information i   got tell me to use rsyncd when it comes to windows
> machines
>> due to a bug.
>
> The only way I was able to get rsync to work with BPC was rsyncd on the
> BPC-side, and MobaSSH on the Windows-side. YMMV I guess. This was on Windows
> Server 2003 and Windows Server 2003 R2, both were the 32b-versions.

I think the current cygwin (1.7.x) version will work with rsync started by 
sshd. 
  A bug in earlier versions caused that to hang randomly.

-- 
   Les Mikesell
    lesmikesell AT gmail DOT com

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