On 9/24/2010 10:37 AM, Hakan Koseoglu wrote:
On 24 September 2010 14:23, Timo Schoelertimo.schoeler@riscworks.net wrote:
Windows admins use a virtualized CentOS machine to copy files because their own tools are not able to handle copying a bigger amount of data. :)
Although I read the article with some amusement, I have to wonder what's wrong with rsync (has a Windows port, albeit somewhat slow with Cygwin implementation). His fallback is using cp which I found utterly incomprehensible.
The current (1.7.x) cygwin ssh/rsync are OK, but there is a long history of earlier versions randomly hanging when rsync was running under sshd (i.e. started remotely). It always worked with rsync configured as a standalone daemon or when executed from the windows side using ssh to a unix/linux target.
This used to be a problem when using backuppc to back up windows files with rsync.