So I've been successfully backing up Windows XP, Vista & 7 machines to my BackupPC instance using Cygwin1.dll, Cygrunsrv.exe, & rsync.exe as a windows service.  Then came a Windows 8 laptop to my work.  I tried to install rsync on it like I've done with all of the other Windows flavors, but it failed.  The files are located where they should be, and the service gets registered, but when it tries to start the service, it fails.  Event log throws up entries like "rsyncd: PID 3092: `rsyncd' service stopped, exit status: 127".  Cygwin itself gave some slightly more verbose errors in C:\var\log\rsyncd.log:

/rsyncd/rsync.exe: error while loading shared libraries:  cygpopt-0.dll: cannot open shared object file:  No such file or directory

/rsyncd/rsync.exe: error while loading shared libraries:  cygiconv-2.dll: cannot open shared object file:  No such file or directory

Armed with both of these log entries, I downloaded the full blown cygwin, extracted it, and found the appropriate .dlls and copied them to my rsync directory.  Then it gave me this error:

/rsyncd/rsync.exe: error while loading shared libraries:  ?: cannot open shared object file:  No such file or directory

What the deuce?  I have no idea how to troubleshoot this one.  Anyone have any suggestions on how to get rsync working on Windows 8?

Thanks,

Mark Campbell

Systems Administrator

 eMediaTRADE

11800 Will Road Suite 150

Alpharetta, GA  30009

(678)689-0146 (office)

mcampbell AT emediatrade DOT com

www.emediatrade.com