Another cygwin/rsync question

[Ken Smith]

Hi, Been using rsync for many years but I'm stuck with this problem.

I'ts a simplistic backup using rsync from a Windows 2k3 machine to a 
Linux box out on the 'net, using pre-shared ssh keys. In this case I'm 
saving, files belonging to various users, using the administrator 
account on the windows machine and the destination is a normal user 
account and its home file area. I'm using the rsync --chown option to 
stop rsync trying to change the ownership/mode on the destination 
filesystem. I'm not bothered about saving the file perms/ownership.

If I do a small transfer of a couple of dozen files as a test, all goes 
well.

The path of the source on the windows system has spaces in the name, 
I've tried every type of escaping that I can think of to get the shells 
to work properly. If I run rsync running on a larger batch of files it 
seems to stall. Using the -vvv option I can see rsync, on the 
windows.cygwin end, collecting a list of files prefixed by

[sender] make_file (filenames)

that I guess it is going to transfer and then this is followed by

recv_file_name (another filename)

Which I presume is the first file that it is transferring. That file is 
a few hundred k so it won't take long, But rsync stalls at that point. 
Cntrl C does nothing and I end up having to kill the rsync process.

I've tried

  rsync -avvvvz --progress --delete --chmod=ugo=rwX -e "ssh -i 
/home/administrator/rsync-key" """"/cygdrive/c/Users Shared Folders"""" 
""""user at remotehost/home/user/backup/""""

  rsync -avvvvz --progress --delete --chmod=ugo=rwX -e "ssh -i 
/home/administrator/rsync-key" """"/cygdrive/c/Users\ Shared\ 
Folders"""" """"user at remotehost:/home/user/backup/""""

rsync -avvvvz --progress --delete --chmod=ugo=rwX -e "ssh -i 
/home/administrator/rsync-key" '"/cygdrive/c/Users\ Shared\ Folders"' 
'"user at remotehost:/home/user/backup/"'

  rsync -avvvz --progress --delete --chmod=ugo=rwX -e 'ssh -i 
/home/administrator/rsync-key' /cygdrive/c/Users\\\ Shared\\\ Folders 
user at remotehost:/home/user/backup/

The cygwin rsync is v3.0.6 and the Linux (Centos) target machine has 
rsync 2.6.8


Any ideas most welcome.

Thanks

Ken

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