James Bensley wrote: > > I have a win2k3 server that its backing up to a CentOS 5.3 server. On > the Win2k3 machine I plan to have rsync back up nightly to the CentOS > server through ssh. The command I am using is as follows: > > rsync -vrPtz -e ssh myuser at myserver:/remote/backup/folder/ /local/backup/folder/ The first thing I'm sure you noticed was that this syntax copies data from a remote system to the local one, which is the opposite of what you described doing, above. The second thing you will notice, eventually, is that rsync over ssh under Cygwin is unreliable. This has been the case for years and has something to do with Cygwin's emulation of blocking sockets which causes rsync to hang. Even if your backups are working now, I strongly recommend against continuing in this manner. If you want to use rsync on Windows, the best thing to do is run rsync and ssh daemons on the Windows host. Rsync should only listen for localhost connections. Run your backup jobs from Linux; ssh to the Windows machine and forward a port for rsync. A local rsync can then connect to the Windows machine over the port forward.