Why is this rsync connection unexpectedly closed on Windows?

Question

I'm trying to use rsync on Windows 7. I installed cwRsync and tried to connect to Ubuntu 9.04.

$ rsync -azC --force --more-options ./ user@server:/my/path/
rsync: connection unexpectedly closed (0 bytes received so far) [receiver] 
rsync error: error in rsync protocol data stream (code 12) at io.c(600) [receiver=3.0.5]
rsync: connection unexpectedly closed (0 bytes received so far) [sender]
rsync error: error in rsync protocol data stream (code 12) at io.c(610) [sender=3.0.8]

Answer 1

The trick for me was I had ssh conflict.

I have Git installed on my Windows path, which includes ssh. cwrsync also installs ssh.

The trick is to have make a batch file to set the correct paths:

rsync.bat

@echo off
SETLOCAL
SET CWRSYNCHOME=c:\commands\cwrsync
SET HOME=c:\Users\Petah\
SET CWOLDPATH=%PATH%
SET PATH=%CWRSYNCHOME%\bin;%PATH%
%~dp0\cwrsync\bin\rsync.exe %*

On Windows you can type where ssh to check if this is an issue. You will get something like this:

where ssh
C:\Program Files (x86)\Git\bin\ssh.exe
C:\Program Files\cwRsync\ssh.exe