[Gllug] Talking of backups, cygwin/rsync

[Ken Smith]

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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