rsync and cygwin on win XP freeze/hanging

I am running rsync under cygwin on a winXP pro system. Cygwin is the most recent version (1.3.12-2) and rsync 2.5.5 protocol 26. It seems that almost %50 of the time, rsync hangs after the last file is done syncing. When it's hung, I can press ctrl-c, and an error message: rsync error: rece

Rsync of several directories doesn't delete files

Hello. I'm trying to use rsync to keep a backup of a web server (named "www") on a separate machine (named "backup"). "Www" is running Trustix Linux 1.5 (kernel 2-2-20-2tr) with rsync 2.5.4 protocol 26. "Backup" is running OpenBSD 3.0. Rsync is using OpenSSH 3.1p1 as the transport. Files that are

Problem copying >2GB files on HP-UX with rsync 2.5.5

Hello, I tried to copy files >2GB locally with rsync 2.5.5 on HP-UX but I always get the following error message: rsync: error writing 32768 unbuffered bytes - exiting: Broken pipe rsync error: error in rsync protocol data stream (code 12) at io.c(463) I know that this is a known

RE: Unexpected Tag Errors - Solution

Hi all. After weeks of debugging etc. I found the problem. It would seem like its a compiler error on SCO, because in line 286 of io.c - read_unbuffered() - it declares a 'static' variable (type size_t) called 'remaining', and while the ANSI standard says that static vars are automatically initi

rsync not reporting perm/owner diffs in dryrun

Some months ago I posted patches on this list for rsync so that rsync in dryrun mode would report if there were permission/owner diffs. This was never picked up. I still think this is really a major issue and should be taken care of. Can the list please reach consensus about what the desired be

Re: chroot and wrong user names

Thank you for the prompt and clear reply. That should settle the matter. At 02:41 19/09/02 -0700, you wrote: >On Thu, Sep 19, 2002 at 10:02:18AM +0100, Riq Willitts wrote: > > I am using rsync 2.5.5 running as a daemon on the destination system, > which > > is SuSE Linux 8.0. The source system

Re: chroot and wrong user names

On Thu, Sep 19, 2002 at 10:02:18AM +0100, Riq Willitts wrote: > I am using rsync 2.5.5 running as a daemon on the destination system, which > is SuSE Linux 8.0. The source system is SuSE 7.3, also with rsync 2.5.5. > With the default 'use chroot = true' and not using --numeric-ids, I get > the

chroot and wrong user names

I am using rsync 2.5.5 running as a daemon on the destination system, which is SuSE Linux 8.0. The source system is SuSE 7.3, also with rsync 2.5.5. With the default 'use chroot = true' and not using --numeric-ids, I get the wrong user names on the destination files. I have tracked this down