Curtis Vaughan wrote at about 11:21:58 -0700 on Wednesday, July 29, 2009:
 > Backuppc was performing an rsync back up one Windows XP system, on
 > which Cygwin is installed, for years now. But now it starts the backup and
 > seems to just hang there. That is, I can see it's backed up a number of
 > files and directories, placing them in the appropriate .../new/ directory,
 > but then at some point it stops adding any files. And it'll stay that way
 > for days. 
 > I've also tried to add a Windows 2000 Server with the same configuration.
 > It also does the same thing.
 > I should note that all Linux/Unix servers are backing up just fine.
 > How do I go about troubleshoot the Windows issue though? 
 > 

rsync (as opposed to rsyncd) has a history of hanging on
Windows/cygwin systems. To verify this, try doing a naked rsync on
your Linux machine to back up the same tree on the Windows machine
using the flag "--protocol=28" and see if you get a similar hang. The
problem is fixed with newer versions of rsync with protocol 30, but
unfortunately the perl module 'perl-File-RsyncP' only works with
protocol <=28 and indeed causes Backuppc/rsync to regress to
protocol=28.

Running rsyncd on windoze and the rsyncd method on Backuppc avoids
this problem.

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