[Gllug] Talking of backups, cygwin/rsync

[Ken Smith]

Apologies for the multiple posting. Thanks Ken


Ken Smith wrote:
> I'm having a problem with a simplistic backup using rsync from a Windows
> machine to a Linux box out on the 'net.
>
> I've used cygwin with rsync on windows boxes many times before to do
> simple rsync backups using ssh preshared keys. Often the destination has
> been another win box with rsync and cygwin.
>
> In this case I'm backing up, files belonging to various users, using the
> administrator account on the windows machine and the destination is a
> normal user account and its home file area. I'm using the rsync --chown
> option to stop rsync trying to change the ownership/mode on the
> destination filesystem.
>
> If I do a small transfer of a couple of dozen files, all goes well as a
> test.
>
> But If I set it running on a larger batch it seems to stall. Using the
> -vvv option I can see rsync on the windows.cygwin end collecting a list
> of files prefixed by
>
> [sender] make_file (filenames)
>
> that I guess it is going to transfer and then this is followed by
>
> recv_file_name (another filename)
>
> Which I presume is the first file that it is tranferring. That file is a
> few hundred k so it won't take long, But rsync stalls at that point.
> Cntrl C does nothing and I end up having to kill the rsync process.
>
> Any ideas
>
> Thanks
>
> Ken
>
>    


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