Mail Archives: cygwin/2006/11/12/18:33:52
Hello,
I backup a windows laptop on my home lan everynight using rsync and
cygwin. The backups are made on a Linux PC running Debian Etch and
2.6.17 kernel. The Windows laptop is running Windows XP Pro. fully
updated, and cygwin, also fully updated (which has sshd and rsyncd running).
On the Linux PC, I have a cron job which calls my rsync script to copy
the directories from Windows PC to the Linux PC.
I notice that if there are either too many files, or large files or both
to be copied from the Windows PC, rsync hangs and never completes. But
with the "-n" option, rsync on the Linux PC gives the list of files to
be copied.
This hanging can kind of be avoided if I do the backup of the Windows PC
folder by folder (I break up the backup process into backing up a bunch
of folders at a time).
Recenly, I noticed that I can run that backup rsync command manually on
the Linux PC and it worked. But running that command via a script did
not work. So, at this point I am not sure what is going wrong, maybe it
is my script. I run the same command from the command line and from the
script but the results are different. Before I go further into my
script, I just wanted to know if somebody is aware of any problem if
rsyncd being run on Cygwin and Linux <--> Cygwin rsync problems.
Thanks,
->HS
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