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This was also posted to the Rsync list @ samba.org:

I tried the following as suggested by Tevfik Karaguile:

Xcacls c:\cv7 /T /E /G Administrators:F

This chugged and chugged and processed all the files in the tree.  I then right-clicked c:\cv7 and made sure that the folder and all subfiles/folders were marked *NOT* read-only.

I then issued the command again from my laptop:

rsync -vzrLpogtu /cv7/windows/ user@ui7::crystal_windows

Going back to UI7 computer and checking the file permissions in c:\cv7\windows -- they're all set to read-only again!

Help??

Hello,

I am running copSSH on a 2003 server. It install and worked perfectly however I have a security problem. As it installs SVCcopssh as a local account it clashes with the global security policy which requires it to be a domain account to run a service. Is there anyway to change the account which runs the service ?

I've tried to change the default port # of COPSSH (openssh) and cant seem to get it to work in anything but port 22. For example I tried 9922. I made sure the fw on my router and Norton AV were open on that port. I changed the port # for my connection in PuTTY as well. All connections time out. Same with with WinSCP3. I changed the port #, tried to connect, and it times out. If I change everything back to port 22 everything works fine. What am I overlooking?
Windows FW is disabled.

I restarted the OpenSSHD service each time I changed the sshd_config file.

TIA

I have read the FAQ on this.
1. Make a local group with copssh users as members.

When you say make a local group how is this accomplished? Through Windows groups or through the bash shell? I did create a new windows group after installing this software, but looking at groups in the bash shell doesn't show the new one. How would I create a local group in the bash shell?

2. Deny access to this group at top level.

What top level .. the windows c: directory or from within the bash shell? I'm not clear on how or where to do this at.

Hello,
I've installed cwRSyncServer 2.0.4 ON A WINDOWS 2k server. No previous cygwin install on this machine. No ssh, my network can be considered as safe.
#rsync --version
#rsync version 2.6.6 protocol version 29

I'm backing up from a Debian Sarge :
#rsync --version
#rsync version 2.6.4 protocol version 29

Anyway, all worked fine since I reboot the windows server. The service is configured to start automaticly and it starts, but my croned rsync sends me :

Erreur lors de l'éxécution de /usr/bin/rsync -a --delete --filter='+ /HSF/' --filter='+ /HSF/**' --filter='- *' '--link-dest=/opt/saves/data/20060119' rsync://10.110.103.1/save/ /opt/saves/data/20060120
Return value : 12
STDERR :
rsync: read error: Connection reset by peer (104)
rsync error: error in rsync protocol data stream (code 12) at io.c(570)
STDOUT :

And the logs on the windows server :
rsyncd.log :
------------
2006/01/20 02:55:12 rsync error: received SIGUSR1 or SIGINT (code 20) at rsync.c(163)
2006/01/20 02:57:49 rsyncd version 2.6.6 starting, listening on port 873
2006/01/20 03:11:38 rsync: could not create child server process: No child processes (10)

rsyncd-stderr.log:
------------------
C:\Program Files\cwRsyncServer\bin\rsync.exe (7816): *** couldn't allocate cygwin heap, Win32 error 487, base 0x460000, top 0x464000, reserve_size 16384, allocsize 16384, page_const 4096
1162454093 rsync 1152 fork_parent: child 7816 died waiting for longjmp before initialization

The port 873 is open and responding on the server, but it closes the connexion immediately after I connect with telnet (just for a try), issuing this to lines in the error log.

If I restart the service all works fine. A telnet on port 873 sends me :
@RSYNCD: 29

@ERROR: protocol startup error
Connection closed by foreign host.

And the rsync command goes OK.

In fact the problem apears after each reboot. Any suggetion ?

Thanks,
--
Matthieu

I am running copSSH on Windows 2003 SP1. I downloaded the latest version of copSSH 1.3.7 today. I activated one user without a problem. When I activated the second user it did not create the myhome directory. When I go to either users home directory (/home/user1 or /home/user2)and try to create a link to another directory it says permission denied. If I go to /home/user1/myhome and try to create the link it works fine. There is no /home/user2/myhome directory to try to create the link in for user2.

I have about 20 PCs spread about London using CWRsync on a variety of Windows systems to backup every night to a single, fully updated, Fedora Core 3 system with 2.4Ghz CPU, 1Gb RAM, 4x300Mb Disks, hosted professionally in Telehouse, i.e. on the Internet backbone. They have been running for about a year. They use a variety of ADSL lines and Leased Lines.
Some sites work 100%. Others are flaky. There is no common denominator that I can find.

I have spent a huge number of hours trying to work out where/what the problem is and/or how to get around it, without success.

I have tried many options but the main ones are:
with/without: SSH (using -e)
SSH (using channel wrappers)
compression
blocking-io
partials
inplace
blocksize
small and large timeouts
bandwidth limits
local/networked files
protocol=28
older versions of cwrsync
older versions of Linux Rsync
Tuning TCP/IP
increasing process priority (both ends)
and all relevent combinations of the above, all to no avail.

All other links to the server work fine - FTP, HTTP, SSH.

Rsync will fail with just a single instance running, so it is unlikely to be a resource issue.

The only thing I have really worked out is that it will usually trip over when transferring a large (35Gb) highly compressed file, but it can happen any time, or not! (BTW, continually restarting rsync until it succeeds is NOT the answer for some sites.)

I'm using Rsync in the form:

rsync -azv '/cygdrive/C/Temp/.' test@195.001.001.001::test/STORE/TEST/.

TYPICAL ERROR MESSAGES ARE:
io timeout after 6374 seconds -- exiting
rsync error: timeout in data send/receive (code 30) at io.c(183)

rsync: writefd_unbuffered failed to write 239 bytes: phase
rsync: read error: Connection reset by peer (104)
rsync error: error in rsync protocol data stream (code 12) at io.c(584)
[THE NUMBER OF BYTES VARIES, BUT CODES ARE THE SAME)

rsync: read error: Connection reset by peer (104)
rsync error: error in rsync protocol data stream (code 12) at io.c(584)

I have spent hours trawling the Web for solutions. This has cropped up in Forums many, many times, but no obvious solution is ever forthcoming. I suspect the thread posters just give up and 'go away', much like I'm about to do ...

I personally reckon there must be a fundamental bug in the rsync protocol, or in relation to CygWin, that only shows up on WANs.

My client wishes to expand his number of sites further, but I cannot make it reliable for him.
Unless somebody can come up with a solution I'm going to have to chuck it in.

Any suggestions or solutions will be very gratefully received!
Thanks

Could you please tell me how to download files from Unix using cwRsync. I what my Windows XP machine use windows services to logon daily to the Unix box and download(sync) all files from this Unix box folder to local XP folder. It should be done through ssh. I have tried several variations of the commands but it seems, I can not make it work.
Thank you in advance

I'm trying to synchronize some 30'000 files from a linux box (server) to a XP-client (running cwrsync as a client). Works excellent for smaller directories, but hangs with the message
buffer overfolw in recursive_file_entry
error allocating core memory buffers (code 22) at util.c(126)

when I try to synchronize a big directory.
The directory contains some long filenames ans long pathes as well - but if I synchronize the same directory in two steps it works flawlessly.

I am having a hard time getting this to work the cmd string is
C:\cwRsync\bin\rsync.exe -azWe "c:\cwrsync\bin\ssh -i C:\cwRsync\bin\id_dsa" --log-format="%%t,%%f.%%l,%%o" --files-from="FILEs.txt"

and the files.txt file is
/cygdrive/c/carma2
/cygdrive/c/ati
/cygdrive/c/test

This is from a windows xp machine to a Linux server

What am I doing wrong?