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I have MobaSSH installed on two Windows (XP and Vista) machines. When I do rsync over ssh it often hangs. I've read this happens with cygwin/rsync/ssh (MobaSSH is cygin based). Is there any known fix or alternate ssh/rsync server I could use?
ne0sonic
Posted 2009-12-09T23:12:15.570
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I use rsync + ssh on Cygwin 1.7 (the beta release) and haven't encountered this problem yet. Most of my rsync is a Windows machine pulling via rsync from a Linux machine.
There are articles out there discussing possible issues.
http://marc-abramowitz.com/archives/2007/10/14/solving-rsync-hangs-with-cygwin/ - this links to a rsync daemon setup
A relatively recent thread on the Cygwin list offers some alternatives, and again they iterate using the rsyncd.
Here's another walkthrough of setting up rsyncd.
Between 2 Windows machines I've always found it easier to use Windows File Sharing to copy the files.
Darren Hall
Posted 2009-12-09T23:12:15.570
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I ended up using rsyncd and a ssh tunnel to the port it listens on. I haven't seen any hangs with this configuration. – ne0sonic – 2010-01-19T13:24:08.827
Could you point to links where you've read this being discussed? I've not heard of it happening before (I use cygwin ssh+rsync regularly) and such links might give knowledgeable people clues. – David Spillett – 2009-12-10T00:04:48.007
Here is one such example: http://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2006-06/msg00800.html
– ne0sonic – 2009-12-10T00:06:58.220http://lists.samba.org/archive/rsync/2005-April/012190.html – ne0sonic – 2009-12-10T00:07:42.570