I spent about 12 hours today writing a nice backup system based on Mike Rubel's snapshot system; but much to my dismay, when I took it for a test drive, I found that rsync hung on the first large directory I tried to back up. Aiee!
A few web searches later, I realized that a lot of folks have seen this problem. I saw one proposed fix... http://sources.redhat.com/ml/cygwin/2002-09/msg01155.html This fix is in rsync 2.5.5-2, but rsync still hangs for me. I'm able to sync a smaller directory but this larger one fails consistently. My symptoms are much like the ones reported by other folks; if I run a command like this... rsync -vvv -a --delete --delete-excluded -e ssh othermachine:/c/gse/ t ...the last thing I see is recv_generator(vst/sync/weird/ww 2.6 presets.txt,4866) generate_files phase=1 There are 4867 files in the folder I'm trying to back up, for what that's worth. I've cruised the code briefly but I don't see anything obvious; then again, I barely know how the guts of rsync work as far as forking processes and whatnot. So I don't even know if the -vvv output is all coming from one process. Help! Am I the only one still seeing this hang? -- scott evans :: www.antisleep.com -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
