Background - I'm trying to turn off my linux box and save some
electricity by using rsync on windows to do my geographically
redundant backup to my ISP (site5 - $5/110GB/mo) ... I'd rather not
load up a resource hog VM to do it if I can avoid that... even DSL
would be more of a resource hog than cygwin.
Technical: rsync on cygwin always hangs. Works fine on CentOS. I've
been looking into this issue for 5-10 hours so far.
I can scp/ssh fine to the target with ssh keys installed or not, only
rsync hangs. I read about piping issues in rsync on cygwin from years
back, but it seems to me like perhaps they are not resolved? Just my
hypothesis.