rsync over ssh and cygwin don't play nice and likely never will. Either
avoid using rsync or use it in daemon mode avoiding ssh which is where
the problem really lies ( the interaction between rsync and ssh ).
A good alternative to cygwin for this is SFU but be aware that most
versions only support 32bit files so less than 2GB.
Regards
Steve
----- Original Message -----
From: "Fred Kemp" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Good afternoon all,
Please excuse my cygwin newbie status if I have missed something
obvious.
Having resolved the "overly long file name" issue with rsync in cygwin
1.5 by upgrading to version 1.7, I have hit a new problem, namely
rsync hanging midway through transfer. No errors are reported or
logged, nothing seems to be timing out, it just sits there
indefinitely. Re-running rsync will maybe do a couple more files then
hang again, and again, and again... Having read around tinternet, it
seems I am not completely alone in this problem, but I have yet to
find a solution that works for me. Briefly:
I have set up ssh-keyless authentication between my server (OsX
10.5.5, rsync 3.0.4, OpenSSH 5.1p1) and a dozen or so PC's running
XPsp2 (cygwin 1.7, rsync 3.0.4, OpenSSH 5.1p1) and use rsync to
mirror user directories on the PC's to my server, as follows:
rsync --verbose --progress --stats --rsh=/usr/bin/ssh --archive \
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:"/cygdrive/c/Documents\ and\ Settings/
userdirectory/" /Users/userdirectory/
This is in effect identical to the method I use to mirror data between
two OsX servers, where it can happily handle several terabytes of data
and millions of files. I have tried rsyncing individual subdirectories
in a userdirectory and that works fine but still it hangs when the
whole directory is tried again. Similarly, one or two of the smaller
user directories (around 15,000 files and 35Gb data) work fine. Over
around 30,000 files seems to be where I have the problem...
What is really strange is that if I run the rsync from the client PC
to the server, it works fine, and subsequent rsyncs from the server
also work fine (presumably since hardly any files have changed)...
At this stage I am somewhat stumped and would appreciate any pointers
the gurus can give, even as to whether this is believed to be an
rsync, sshd or underlying cywin issue... Very happy to provide further
info as required, or to be shot down in flames should I have done
something stupid! ;-)
Thanks in advance,
Fred.
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