rsync - Dec 2004 - Problem with rsync-cygwin between two WindowsXP machines

I hope this problem hasn't been posted before, I cannot find a way to 
search the archives...  I use rsync successfully between several Suse 
9.1 machines at my work - never with any problem(s).  I had to move my 
email from an obscure mail client (that saves each message as a separate 
file) to Mozilla mail (for security purposes).  So, my "old" program 
that I used to sync my mail folders between home/work/laptop will still 
work, but Mozilla mail and Outlook (the only two choices) both store 
concatenated mail messages in huge files (I have several "folder" that
are almost 1 GB).  So me thinks, rsync to the resue!  However, the 
cygwin version appears to choke on files with spaces in the name(s) (I 
think).  I map to a shared drive, then try and run rsync between the 
mail directories of each machine.  The first several mailboxes (i.e. 
single files) work fine, until it gets to my General Admin file (called 
General Admin and General Admin.msf - which is the index file).  Then, 
rsync chokes with the following message:

calling match_sums ccs.nrl.navy.mil/General Admin.msf
ccs.nrl.navy.mil/General Admin.msf
rsync error: received SIGUSR1 or SIGINT (code 20) at 
/home/lapo/packaging/tmp/rsync-2.6.3/rsync.c(231)
_exit_cleanup(code=20, 
file=/home/lapo/packaging/tmp/rsync-2.6.3/rsync.c, line=231): about to 
call exit(20)
rsync: writefd_unbuffered failed to write 106 bytes: phase "unknown" 
[generator]: Connection reset by peer (104)
rsync error: error in rsync protocol data stream (code 12) at 
/home/lapo/packaging/tmp/rsync-2.6.3/io.c(909)
_exit_cleanup(code=12, file=/home/lapo/packaging/tmp/rsync-2.6.3/io.c, 
line=909): about to call exit(12)

Almost all of my work directories have files with long names and spaces 
and it never does this on Linux?  Are there any switches/precautions 
peculiar to the cygwin version?

In another vein, has anyone created a COM or .NET assembly from the 
rsync algorithm?  I have only done a tiny bit of programming in C, but 
can program effectively in VB...  Seems like a straightforward project 
if the algorithm is available?

Thanks for any help.

Tom

Hi,

Can't help you much with the error but it seen to me you missing some thing:
> I map to a shared drive, then try and run rsync between the mail
directories of each machine

Rsync this way is actually copy the whole file each time !!!! (--whole-file)
To use rsync diff synchronize algorithm to need to run rsync as service in
on of the XP machine.

You can use cwRsync  to install rsync as service in Win environment, follow
this link:
http://www.nasbackup.com/modules.php?op=modload&name=Web_Links&file=index&re
q=visit&lid=7
> In another vein, has anyone created a COM or .NET assembly from the
> rsync algorithm?  I have only done a tiny bit of programming in C, but
> can program effectively in VB...  Seems like a straightforward project
> if the algorithm is available?
Not that I know off.

Regards,

Milutin Voinivich
http://www.NasBackup.com/




----- Original Message -----
From: "Thomas J. Boyd" <tboydva@comcast.net>
To: <rsync@lists.samba.org>
Sent: Thursday, December 30, 2004 4:13 AM
Subject: Problem with rsync-cygwin between two WindowsXP machines

> I hope this problem hasn't been posted before, I cannot find a way to
> search the archives...  I use rsync successfully between several Suse
> 9.1 machines at my work - never with any problem(s).  I had to move my
> email from an obscure mail client (that saves each message as a separate
> file) to Mozilla mail (for security purposes).  So, my "old"
program
> that I used to sync my mail folders between home/work/laptop will still
> work, but Mozilla mail and Outlook (the only two choices) both store
> concatenated mail messages in huge files (I have several "folder"
that
> are almost 1 GB).  So me thinks, rsync to the resue!  However, the
> cygwin version appears to choke on files with spaces in the name(s) (I
> think).  I map to a shared drive, then try and run rsync between the
> mail directories of each machine.  The first several mailboxes (i.e.
> single files) work fine, until it gets to my General Admin file (called
> General Admin and General Admin.msf - which is the index file).  Then,
> rsync chokes with the following message:
>
> calling match_sums ccs.nrl.navy.mil/General Admin.msf
> ccs.nrl.navy.mil/General Admin.msf
> rsync error: received SIGUSR1 or SIGINT (code 20) at
> /home/lapo/packaging/tmp/rsync-2.6.3/rsync.c(231)
> _exit_cleanup(code=20,
> file=/home/lapo/packaging/tmp/rsync-2.6.3/rsync.c, line=231): about to
> call exit(20)
> rsync: writefd_unbuffered failed to write 106 bytes: phase
"unknown"
> [generator]: Connection reset by peer (104)
> rsync error: error in rsync protocol data stream (code 12) at
> /home/lapo/packaging/tmp/rsync-2.6.3/io.c(909)
> _exit_cleanup(code=12, file=/home/lapo/packaging/tmp/rsync-2.6.3/io.c,
> line=909): about to call exit(12)
>
> Almost all of my work directories have files with long names and spaces
> and it never does this on Linux?  Are there any switches/precautions
> peculiar to the cygwin version?
>
> In another vein, has anyone created a COM or .NET assembly from the
> rsync algorithm?  I have only done a tiny bit of programming in C, but
> can program effectively in VB...  Seems like a straightforward project
> if the algorithm is available?
>
> Thanks for any help.
>
> Tom
>
>
>