rsync and cygwin

[jw schultz]

On Tue, Jun 03, 2003 at 06:34:42PM -0500, Trey Nolen wrote:
> 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:\ ).

I was refering to the exclude list, not the command line.
In any case -vv will show you what patterns do match.

> 
> 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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