Andrew, I did fail to mention that once I decided to grab additional .dlls from the install, that I copied over the corresponding updates to the original files mentioned, to no avail.
But your idea inspired me to try running the rsync that I installed in the rsyncd directory in an administrator command line, and lo and behold, it gave me an error message with a new missing .dll to get! Once I got that one and dropped it in the rsyncd folder, I tried running it on the command line again, and it gave me the rsync help menu. Once that worked, I tried starting the service again, and it succeeded! Woo hoo! :) For the record (for anyone else that might be doing the same that I am doing), these are all the files required by rsync to run as a service in windows 8: -cygiconv-2.dll -cygintl-8.dll -cygpopt-0.dll -cygrunsrv.exe -cygwin1.dll -rsync.exe -rsyncd.conf Thanks, --Mark -----Original Message----- From: Andrew Schulman [mailto:and...@alumni.utexas.net] Sent: Tuesday, July 30, 2013 1:17 PM To: backuppc-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [BackupPC-users] rsync on Windows 8? > So I've been successfully backing up Windows XP, Vista & 7 machines to my > BackupPC instance using Cygwin1.dll, Cygrunsrv.exe, & rsync.exe as a windows > service. Then came a Windows 8 laptop to my work. I tried to install rsync > on it like I've done with all of the other Windows flavors, but it failed. > The files are located where they should be, and the service gets registered, > but when it tries to start the service, it fails. Event log throws up > entries like "rsyncd: PID 3092: `rsyncd' service stopped, exit status: 127". > Cygwin itself gave some slightly more verbose errors in C:\var\log\rsyncd.log: > > /rsyncd/rsync.exe: error while loading shared libraries: > cygpopt-0.dll: cannot open shared object file: No such file or > directory > /rsyncd/rsync.exe: error while loading shared libraries: > cygiconv-2.dll: cannot open shared object file: No such file or > directory > > Armed with both of these log entries, I downloaded the full blown cygwin, > extracted it, and found the appropriate .dlls and copied them to my rsync > directory. Then it gave me this error: > > /rsyncd/rsync.exe: error while loading shared libraries: ?: cannot > open shared object file: No such file or directory > > What the deuce? I have no idea how to troubleshoot this one. Anyone have > any suggestions on how to get rsync working on Windows 8? Could it be that your rsyncd.exe was compiled against different versions of those libraries? Since you've already created a full Cygwin installation, I suggest starting by trying run the rsyncd that's in that. If that works, then you can go back to trying to extract just the pieces you need into a separate directory (or not). ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Get your SQL database under version control now! Version control is standard for application code, but databases havent caught up. So what steps can you take to put your SQL databases under version control? Why should you start doing it? Read more to find out. http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=49501711&iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk _______________________________________________ BackupPC-users mailing list BackupPC-users@lists.sourceforge.net List: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users Wiki: http://backuppc.wiki.sourceforge.net Project: http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Get your SQL database under version control now! Version control is standard for application code, but databases havent caught up. So what steps can you take to put your SQL databases under version control? Why should you start doing it? Read more to find out. http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=49501711&iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk _______________________________________________ BackupPC-users mailing list BackupPC-users@lists.sourceforge.net List: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users Wiki: http://backuppc.wiki.sourceforge.net Project: http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/