Mail Archives: cygwin/2009/03/07/17:03:20
On 7 Mar 2009, at 12:11, Des Dougan wrote:
> Several months ago I set up an OpenSUSE box to act as a remote
> backup server to a Windows 2008 Server, running rsync over ssh from
> the Linux box, with Cygwin on the Windows server. It had been
> working well until a couple of weeks ago when I had a problem with
> one of the Access databases (.mdb file) the server hosts. Basically,
> rsync stopped processing and just hung when processing this file.
> Restarting the server did not seem to clear it up. The application
> using the databases was also having shutdown issues, so it appeared
> to be an application-caused hang. Subsequently, though, I am seeing
> other hang-ups. I have spent time this morning trying to diagnose
> the problem, which manifested itself with a printer driver (/Windows/
> System32/spool/drivers/w32x86/3/PCL5ERES.DLL). Restarting the server
> didn't make a difference. I therefore updated Cygwin to ensure I was
> on the latest version:
>
> $ cygcheck -V
> cygcheck version 1.90.4.1
> System Checker for Cygwin
> Copyright 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006 Red
> Hat, Inc.
> Compiled on Jun 12 2008
>
> After restarting the server, I ran the backup script. Now it is
> hanging on bash.exe, which I assume was updated as part of the
> Cygwin update. The backup command in the script is:
>
> rsync -auvz --exclude-from=$EXCLUDED2 --rsh="ssh -i $KEY -l Backup -
> p 3390" domain.name:/ $BACKUPDIR2
>
> The variables are of course defined in the script. There are no
> errors written to stdout until the script is cancelled - it simply
> sits not processing until it is cancelled.
>
> I am remote from both servers and have had no connection
> interruptions during my testing.
>
> I'd appreciate any ideas on resolving this.
>
Sorry to reply to my own post. I tried some other options, and found
that if I used the rsync "W" option instead of the "u" option, the
backup ran cleanly.
Can someone clarify why this change affects the process?
Thanks,
Des
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