Adam: > this reads to me like the remote > server is closing the connection
When I run this command on my Windows machine: rsync --debug=ALL r...@marketing.propfinancing.com:/var/www/svnDumps /cygdrive/c/Tmp I get this output on the screen: opening connection using: ssh -l root marketing.propfinancing.com rsync --server --sender -e.LsfxCIvu . /var/www/svnDumps (10 args) rsync: connection unexpectedly closed (0 bytes received so far) [sender] rsync error: error in rsync protocol data stream (code 12) at io.c(226) [sender=3.1.3] rsync: connection unexpectedly closed (0 bytes received so far) [Receiver] rsync error: error in rsync protocol data stream (code 12) at io.c(228) [Receiver=3.2.4dev] [Receiver] _exit_cleanup(code=12, file=io.c, line=228): about to call exit(12) It is connecting to the Linux server and immediately disconnecting, here is what I see in /var/log/secure: Mar 25 12:11:00 marketing sshd[43597]: Postponed publickey for root from 99.137.191.183 port 64715 ssh2 [preauth] Mar 25 12:11:00 marketing sshd[43597]: Accepted publickey for root from 99.137.191.183 port 64715 ssh2: RSA SHA256:[removed] Mar 25 12:11:00 marketing sshd[43597]: pam_unix(sshd:session): session opened for user root by (uid=0) Mar 25 12:11:00 marketing sshd[43600]: Received disconnect from 99.137.191.183 port 64715:11: disconnected by user Mar 25 12:11:00 marketing sshd[43600]: Disconnected from user root 99.137.191.183 port 64715 Mar 25 12:11:00 marketing sshd[43597]: pam_unix(sshd:session): session closed for user root I'm stumped at this point. Thank you, Neil -- Neil Aggarwal, (972) 834-1565, http://www.propfinancing.com We offer 30 year loans on single family houses! -- Problem reports: https://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: https://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: https://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: https://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple