best rsync for use with windows (client) and long file names

Michal Soltys soltys at ziu.info
Fri Mar 27 11:57:14 GMT 2009


Fabian Cenedese wrote:
> 
> I also use cwrsync but the few cases where the path was too
> long I just shortened the source. Of course that may not be
> possible for you.
> 
> bye  Fabi
> 

Remember about cygwin1.dll with utf8 support (using unicode win32 api). 
Side effect of it is that the paths are limited to 32767 iirc. Either 
way - it works fine for me, and I have some very long weird japanese 
file names here and there.

Check:
http://www.okisoft.co.jp/esc/utf8-cygwin/

for details.


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