Trouble rsyncing from Windows to Unix

[Trey Nolen]

You may have two points of trouble.  First, you need to specify something to
get it to be recursive. I use -a, which covers most everything. I also use R
for relative paths. I think that you might also have  trouble with  the
"/usr/bin/ssh -l dplbackup" part.  Try this:

C:\cygwin\bin\rsync.exe -aR -e c:\cygwin\bin\ssh.exe -l dplbackup
/cygdrive/d/user_dpl electric:/raid/backups/dpllaptop

OR, if you don't do c:\cygwin\bin\ , you might try
/cygdrive/c/cygwin/bin/ssh.exe

I have never been able to get the -l command to work in Windows, though.
Instead, you might try:
C:\cygwin\bin\rsync.exe -aR -e c:\cygwin\bin\ssh.exe /cygdrive/d/user_dpl
dplbackup at electric:/raid/backups/dpllaptop


Trey Nolen


>
> I'm using Cygwin on Windows which I just downloaded and I'm trying to set
> up an rsync backup. I'm using an .bat script to copy the files, but it
> gives the error message:
>
> Skipping directory /cygdrive/d/user_dpl
>
>
> Following is the script:
>
>
> @echo off
>
> C:
> C:\cygwin\bin\rsync.exe -e "/usr/bin/ssh -l dplbackup"
/cygdrive/d/user_dpl electric:/raid/backups/dpllaptop
>
>
> I'm confused, since it should not be skipping anything - I no excludes at
> all.
>
> Paul
>
>
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