Several months ago I set up an OpenSUSE box to act as a remote backup
server to a Windows 2008 Server, running rsync over ssh from the Linux
box, with Cygwin on the Windows server. It had been working well until
a couple of weeks ago when I had a problem with one of the Access
databases (.mdb file) the server hosts. Basically, rsync stopped
processing and just hung when processing this file. Restarting the
server did not seem to clear it up. The application using the
databases was also having shutdown issues, so it appeared to be an
application-caused hang. Subsequently, though, I am seeing other hang-
ups. I have spent time this morning trying to diagnose the problem,
which manifested itself with a printer driver (/Windows/System32/spool/
drivers/w32x86/3/PCL5ERES.DLL). Restarting the server didn't make a
difference. I therefore updated Cygwin to ensure I was on the latest
version:
$ cygcheck -V
cygcheck version 1.90.4.1
System Checker for Cygwin
Copyright 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006 Red
Hat, Inc.
Compiled on Jun 12 2008
After restarting the server, I ran the backup script. Now it is
hanging on bash.exe, which I assume was updated as part of the Cygwin
update. The backup command in the script is:
rsync -auvz --exclude-from=$EXCLUDED2 --rsh="ssh -i $KEY -l Backup -p
3390" domain.name:/ $BACKUPDIR2
The variables are of course defined in the script. There are no errors
written to stdout until the script is cancelled - it simply sits not
processing until it is cancelled.
I am remote from both servers and have had no connection interruptions
during my testing.
I'd appreciate any ideas on resolving this.
Thanks,
Des
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