rsync / cygwin hanging problem
Ulrich Meier
ulrich-meier at arcor.de
Thu Nov 20 12:25:31 EST 2003
> recommendation (if i recall correctly) is to not use rsync
> over ssh on windows. Rsync apparently works OK as a daemon
> on whendoze and when accessing an rsync daemon.
It does not make me happy to read this. Anyway, I like to describe my
experience of the last two days, maybe this helps someone, or someone
can help me:
I wanted to synch an Win2000 machine and a WinXP machine. For some
(offtopic) reason I can use Win2k only as local system, since I can´t
even ping it although there is no firewall and hidden server mode is not
activated (as far as I know. Hints on that are welcome too).
rsync -...e ssh user at ... /cygdrive/... works well with small folders,
but with larger ones, it hangs and copies not more than one (!) file.
Additionally I have a Linux machine in the network. My final solution
was to synch first to that system and from that to the Win2k system.
Summarized it behaves like this:
local (data direction) remote
Win2k <-- WinXP hangs at folders with ca. >300 files after copying 1
files at max.
linux <-- WinXP hangs
WinXP --> linux copies about 2GB, then freezes the whole WinXP (not
only cygwin, ctrl+c not working)
Win2k <-- linux works fine, but with incredibly high processor load on
Win2k (like 900MHz for maybe 3MBit/s)
Uli M.
P.s.: All versions of last weeks cygwin webpage and Suse8.2.
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