rsync and cygwin

[jw schultz]

Try using slash instead of backslash.

On Tue, Jun 03, 2003 at 06:04:50PM -0500, Trey Nolen wrote:
> Hi, I'm having some trouble using rsync on W2K under Cygwin. We are using it
> to back up the W2K machine to a Linux machine. We are using the patched
> version of rsync 2.5.6 that allows it to run faster on NT/2K when
> calculating  the changes.  We can backup a directory without a problem, but
> in this case, we want to backup everything, so the directory we are backing
> up is \.  We do not run rsync under a Cygwin bash prompt, and we schedule it
> with the scheduler to run automatically every night, but this issue is the
> same even if we run the commands manually.  The following is the contents of
> a .bat file we are running with scheduler:
> 
> c:\cygwin\bin\rsync -aR -e
> c:\cygwin\bin\ssh.exe --verbose --exclude-from=c:\ssh\rsync-exclude.txt --nu
> meric-ids --delete --delete-after \ root at host.net:/
> 
> 
> I've also tried something like the following:
> c:\cygwin\bin\rsync -aR -e
> c:\cygwin\bin\ssh.exe --verbose  --numeric-ids --delete --delete-after \
> root at host.net:/
> 
> In both cases, I get a lot of errors like the following:
> Building file list...
> readlink \/Borrower: No such file or directory
> readlink \/Data: No such file or directory
> :
> :
> IO error encountered - skipping file deletion
> 
> It does one of the readlink lines for every file and directory in the root
> directory. Notice how it has a backslash and a forward slash on each line.
> It seems like rsync is not handling the removal of the slashes properly??
> Now, if I do something like:
> c:\cygwin\bin\rsync -aR -e
> c:\cygwin\bin\ssh.exe --verbose  --numeric-ids --delete --delete-after \Data
> root at host.net:/
> 
> It backs up the c:\Data directory just fine. Notice the only differenc here
> is that we are backing up \Data instead of just \.
> 
> My rsync-exclude.txt file contains:
> + \Borrower
> + \Data
> :
> :
> for each directory and file in the root directory.
> 
> It doesn't seem to matter what we list in the exclude file because the
> errors still list every file in the root directory no matter what we have in
> the exclude file.
> 
> I've looked through the archives, and found some similar issues, like the
> one found here:
>  http://lists.samba.org/pipermail/rsync/2003-March/010247.html  but I
> haven't been able to resolve this so far.
> 
> Can anyone shed some light on this for me?
> 
> Trey Nolen
> 
> 
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