[Gllug] Talking of backups, cygwin/rsync

[Ken Smith]

David Damerell wrote:
> On Wednesday, 13 Jan 2010, 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.
>>      
> What does rsync --dry-run do?
>
>    

Just tried that - the same result :-(
>> 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
>>      
> Can you do bulk data transfers by some other method (eg, scp -r) and
> see what happens?
>
>    

That was going to be my next test. To get the file over to the remote 
machine and then run rsync to make it catch the differences.

Ken


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