Remote Assistance

Les Mikesell lesmikesell at gmail.com
Tue Jul 5 04:06:22 UTC 2005


On Mon, 2005-07-04 at 22:47, Travis Fraser wrote:
> > 
> > > Openssh is pretty easy to setup with cygwin. I have been using that to
> > > pull rsync backups from a Windows XP Pro box.
> > 
> > Are you saying that you are running a remote rsync started by cygwin
> > sshd?  I've been trying to get that to work for years.  Or are you
> > port-forwarding through ssh to rsync in daemon mode?
> Hi,
> 
> I have been doing the former, but with small amounts of data no more
> than 20 or 30 MB. I have discovered though, that often the transfer
> dies. I can't figure out if it is the amount of data, or what.

It's a bug and the time when it stalls seems to be unpredictable.
Running rsync in daemon mode will work, and if necessary you can
use ssh port-forwarding to connect to it.  It's odd because about
everything else works as you would expect under sshd.

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  Les Mikesell
   lesmikesell at gmail.com





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