Re: [BackupPC-users] rsync with windows/cygwin

[Les M. <les...@gm...>]

On 9/14/10 6:05 AM, Sorin Srbu wrote:
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Michael MH. Heel [mailto:mh...@he...]
>> Sent: Tuesday, September 14, 2010 11:07 AM
>> To: bac...@li...
>> Subject: [BackupPC-users] rsync with windows/cygwin
>>
>> Hello. I am testing BackupPC since a few days for backing up Windows PCs.
>>
>> Most information i   got tell me to use rsyncd when it comes to windows
> machines
>> due to a bug.
>
> The only way I was able to get rsync to work with BPC was rsyncd on the
> BPC-side, and MobaSSH on the Windows-side. YMMV I guess. This was on Windows
> Server 2003 and Windows Server 2003 R2, both were the 32b-versions.

I think the current cygwin (1.7.x) version will work with rsync started by sshd. 
  A bug in earlier versions caused that to hang randomly.

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   Les Mikesell
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