Curtis Vaughan wrote at about 11:21:58 -0700 on Wednesday, July 29, 2009: > Backuppc was performing an rsync back up one Windows XP system, on > which Cygwin is installed, for years now. But now it starts the backup and > seems to just hang there. That is, I can see it's backed up a number of > files and directories, placing them in the appropriate .../new/ directory, > but then at some point it stops adding any files. And it'll stay that way > for days. > I've also tried to add a Windows 2000 Server with the same configuration. > It also does the same thing. > I should note that all Linux/Unix servers are backing up just fine. > How do I go about troubleshoot the Windows issue though? >
rsync (as opposed to rsyncd) has a history of hanging on Windows/cygwin systems. To verify this, try doing a naked rsync on your Linux machine to back up the same tree on the Windows machine using the flag "--protocol=28" and see if you get a similar hang. The problem is fixed with newer versions of rsync with protocol 30, but unfortunately the perl module 'perl-File-RsyncP' only works with protocol <=28 and indeed causes Backuppc/rsync to regress to protocol=28. Running rsyncd on windoze and the rsyncd method on Backuppc avoids this problem. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Let Crystal Reports handle the reporting - Free Crystal Reports 2008 30-Day trial. Simplify your report design, integration and deployment - and focus on what you do best, core application coding. Discover what's new with Crystal Reports now. http://p.sf.net/sfu/bobj-july _______________________________________________ BackupPC-users mailing list [email protected] List: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users Wiki: http://backuppc.wiki.sourceforge.net Project: http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/
