rsync and cygwin

[Trey Nolen]

That is with a
- /*
at the end of the excludes file (I was trying to exclude everything else).
But, when that is removed, it matches everything under the cygwin directory
(again matching cygwin's root as / ) and doesn't see the rest of our data.

Trey Nolen




> OK, sorry about that.  When I do that, I get:
> building file list ...
> excluding directory / because of pattern /*
> done
> total: matches=0 tag_hits=0 false_alarms=0 data=0
>
> Trey Nolen
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "jw schultz" <jw at pegasys.ws>
> To: <rsync at lists.samba.org>
> Sent: Tuesday, June 03, 2003 6:44 PM
> Subject: Re: rsync and cygwin
>
>
> > 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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