Rsync hangs with XP machine used as sshd server
Craig Barratt
cbarratt at users.sourceforge.net
Fri Apr 16 02:04:35 GMT 2004
Agostino Russo writes:
> I have a problem with rsync 2.6 protocol 27 (both client and server)
> running over XP via Cygwin and sshd (on remote machine). It just hangs
> almost randomly while transfering files after transfering a few
> megabytes, not always on the same file. When the remote machine is a
> Linux server I have no problems, bad news is I need also to rsync from
> XP... I found the problem mentioned somewhere else doing a google
> serach, see for instance:
>
> http://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2003-08/msg01065.html
>
> Which seems to be exactly the same issue, see the link for more info
> about the situation. Unfortunately I wasn't able to find a solution so
> far on the web. I was hoping that somebody here knows a way around this
> problem (other than dropping XP :-)
I've never found rsync + ssh + cygwin to be reliable; your
symptoms are the same as mine. I recommend using rsync in
daemon mode with cygwin.
Craig
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