Please help : Strange 'file has vanished' behaviour with rsync on windows.

[Jim Salter]

You should be able to temporarily map your UNC to a drivespec and then 
use rsync with the mapped drivespec rather than telling it to use the 
UNC directly.  That would work around your issue effectively.  You'll 
want to use the path /cygdrive under Cygwin to access your mapped 
drivespec.  Something like this:

net use z: \\mypc1\myshare1
rsync -e ssh -av /cygdrive/z/dir1/* /cygdrive/z/dir2/

Hope that helps...

Jim Salter

> Please help : Strange 'file has vanished' behaviour with rsync on windows.
> I need to run rsync on windows and sync shares thru UNC names.
> When I try :
> rsync -e ssh -av //mypc1/myshare1/dir1/* //mypc1/myshare1/dir2/.
> rsync does a copy but says "file has vanished" for every file.
> Then when I run: 
> rsync -e ssh -av --dry-run //mypc1/myshare1/dir1/* //mypc1/myshare1/dir2/.
> it shows me all the files-- indicating that all are out of sync.
> 
> I need to encode logic to transfer only when needed, and this is not helping.
> 
> On the other hand, just to test, if I did a copy without going to network,
> rsync -e ssh -av /cygdrive/c/myshare1/dir1/* /cygdrive/c/myshare1/dir2/.
> and then run:
> rsync -e ssh -av --dry-run //mypc1/myshare1/dir1/* //mypc1/myshare1/dir2/.
> it shows me no files --indicating that the dirs are in sync.
> 
> I would have to use UNCs to copy.
> Is there a bug that I am encountering?
> How do I make things work?
> 
> Best regards