David Christensen wrote at about 13:57:11 -0800 on Monday, February 16, 2009:
 > 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?
 > 

No the problem is the perl library perl-File-RsyncP does not work with
protocol 30 (the rsync 3.0 protocol) so it reverts to the older
protocol which has issues with various Windows files.

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