Rsync server on w2k with ssh

[Joseph Annino]

I use rsync with ssh on windows a lot.  I don't use the rsync server.
Instead I installed cygwin which can setup sshd as a service.  You use the
--rsh option with rsync to get it to tunnel over ssh.  It works very
reliably.

I do have to say though windows is a little slower at this piping than other
platforms.  Using a traffic analysis tool I noticed that the pipe is done by
having ssh connect to the rsync process it spans via a local TCP connection.
I can get speeds of up to about 600k/sec across a 100mb switch between two
windows machines.


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On 4/23/02 8:55 AM, "mgb at adaptive-screening.co.uk"
<mgb at adaptive-screening.co.uk> wrote:

> Help !
> 
> I am running rsync as a service on w2k successfully
> using the patch from http://v.iki.fi/~vherva/cygwin-rsync/
> 
> I would like to connect to the windows machine from Linux, to
> automatically backup the windows machine without user intervention.
> 
> I understand that there are network problems using the native rsync
> transport under windows.  How do I setup ssh with a w2k server?
> 
> I have the ssh .exes from http://optics.ph.unimelb.edu.au/help/rsync/
> 
> Thanks
> 
> Martin Beckett
> 
>