Linux to Windows

[John Jablonski]

Thing is, it's not an rsync problem. It's a windows filesystem problem. 
Or at least a windows problem of some sort.

You can't have a file called:
1124816518.8634_2.mailbox:2,S
in windows.

-john


Gary Thomson wrote:

>Cygwin comes with rsync which might help with your problem, cheers
>
>Gaz
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: rsync-bounces+gary.thomson=uk.wanadoo.com at lists.samba.org
>[mailto:rsync-bounces+gary.thomson=uk.wanadoo.com at lists.samba.org] On
>Behalf Of John Jablonski
>Sent: 23 August 2005 18:11
>Cc: rsync at lists.samba.org
>Subject: Re: Linux to Windows
>
>I have the same problem: backing up IMAP mail on a linux box to a win2k
>box.
>
>My solution was to tar each mail directory and then rsync that. I'm 
>running a cron job on the linux box to do the tars and rsyncs.
>
>-john
>
>Brent Blayney wrote:
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>>Hello to all,
>> 
>>I have a script which uses rsync quite nicely to backup my Linux mail 
>>server to my XP machine from time to time to facilitate CDR archives.
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>>The scrip is run as a batch file on the XP box and is scheduled via 
>>Windows Scheduler.
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>>It works quite well with one exception: many of the mail files come 
>>through as 0KB files and it seems that most of these have unusual 
>>filenames, particularly those starting with a period.  Since this 
>>affects 95% of the files in the mail directories, this is a serious 
>>problem for me!  For instance:
>> 
>>1120817285.22306_0.mail (works fine)
>>.1124450874.30945_0.mail (reports 0KB)
>>.1123700716.P14142Q0M23.mail (reports 0KB)
>>.1087907444.7006_1.mail.domain.com,U=1,W=42566 (reports 0KB)
>> 
>>Is there any known fix for this problem? I realize that Linux 
>>filenames and conventions don't necessarily play nice with Windows, 
>>but perhaps someone here as experience in getting this to work.  
>>Google has thus far proved ineffective in finding a solution!
>> 
>>Also, since I'm new to these mailing lists, how do I reply to someone 
>>who as replied to my post?
>> 
>>Thanks!
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