Cody Dunne wrote:

> http://www.cs.umd.edu/~cdunne/projs/backuppc_guide.html

Which states:

    Regular rsync over SSH doesn't work between Linux and Windows/Cygwin
    boxes because of a bug fixed in rsync 3.0


On Debian 4, I see:

    2009-02-16 13:37:56 root@p3450 ~
    # rsync --version
    rsync  version 2.6.9  protocol version 29
    <snip>

    2009-02-16 13:41:37 root@p3450 ~
    # ssh -V
    OpenSSH_4.3p2 Debian-9etch3, OpenSSL 0.9.8c 05 Sep 2006

    2009-02-16 13:57:13 root@p3450 ~
    # cat /etc/debian_version
    4.0


On Cygwin, I see:

    2009-02-16 13:40:44 dpchrist@p43400e ~
    $ rsync --version
    rsync  version 3.0.4  protocol version 30
    <snip>

    2009-02-16 13:40:50 dpchrist@p43400e ~
    $ ssh -V
    OpenSSH_5.1p1, OpenSSL 0.9.8j 07 Jan 2009


So, it looks like the rsync and ssh binaries in Debian 4.0 are older
versions than those on Cygwin.  Debian 5 has  ssh 5.1p1-5 and rsync
3.0.3-2:

    http://packages.debian.org/lenny/openssh-client

    http://packages.debian.org/lenny/rsync


If I rebuild the box using Debian 5, should BackupPC work for Windows/
Cygwin via ssh/ rsync?


David


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