Cygwin Rsync over SSH hang solution

[Christopher Faylor]

On Sat, Apr 04, 2009 at 01:12:34PM +0300, Dinu Zabrauteanu wrote:
>I come with a solution to Cygwin over SSH problem. I created a blog
>where I posted it.
>
>http://youadmin.blogspot.com/
>
>Intro from blog:
>"
>It is well known that running rsync over SSH to pull data from a
>windows cygwin host hangs and there is no good workaround but to not
>use SSH PIPES. Well, the not USE_PIPES workaround is not so good since
>it fails sometimes and the major drawback is the speed transfer which
>is about 30-40% less then using a normal SSH pipe.
>My solution addresses both security and transfer speed and there is no
>need to compile or modify any software whatsoever.
>
>The idea is to use SSH tunnel with port forwarding."
>
>For more information just read the whole article.

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