rsync and cygwin

Trey Nolen tnolen at internetpro.net
Wed Jun 4 09:34:42 EST 2003


If we do that, it backs up the cygwin directory (c:\cygwin being the root of
the cygwin install) and not the root of c: (i.e. C:\ ).

Trey Nolen

----- Original Message -----
From: "jw schultz" <jw at pegasys.ws>
To: <rsync at lists.samba.org>
Sent: Tuesday, June 03, 2003 6:13 PM
Subject: Re: rsync and cygwin


> 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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