Linux to Windows

[David Filion]

John Jablonski wrote:

> 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:
>>
>>  
>>
>>> 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.
>>>   
>>
>>
>>  
>>
>>> The scrip is run as a batch file on the XP box and is scheduled via 
>>> Windows Scheduler.
>>>
>>> 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!
>>>   
>>
>>
>>  
>>
>
>
Sure about that?

E:\SPAM\ham-dv-20050629\ham-dv-20050629>dir
 Volume in drive E has no label.
 Volume Serial Number is 429E-1A63

 Directory of E:\SPAM\ham-dv-20050629\ham-dv-20050629

23/08/2005  03:17 PM    <DIR>          .
23/08/2005  03:17 PM    <DIR>          ..
13/05/2005  10:03 AM             7,399 
1115996480.12736_4.ritalin.autolinq.com,S=7399_2,S
10/05/2005  08:30 PM            11,315 
1115996632.12736_8.ritalin.autolinq.com,S=11315_2,S
29/06/2005  08:32 AM            21,644 
1120049850.9412_1520.ritalin.autolinq.com,S=21644_2,S
29/06/2005  04:03 AM            21,830 
1120049963.16372_7.ritalin.autolinq.com,S=21830_2,S
23/06/2005  04:02 AM            19,870 
1120051518.2545_16.ritalin.autolinq.com,S=19870_2,S
13/06/2005  07:23 AM            10,752 
1120051556.2545_21.ritalin.autolinq.com,S=10752_2,S
13/06/2005  03:54 AM            20,450 
1120051560.2545_22.ritalin.autolinq.com,S=20450_2,S
10/06/2005  03:54 AM            24,911 
1120051587.2545_23.ritalin.autolinq.com,S=24911_2,S
08/06/2005  03:55 AM            26,722 
1120051587.2545_24.ritalin.autolinq.com,S=26722_2,S
29/06/2005  10:03 AM             3,780 
1120053970.29600_6.ritalin.autolinq.com,S=3780_2,S
              10 File(s)        168,673 bytes
               2 Dir(s)  29,018,013,696 bytes free

E:\SPAM\ham-dv-20050629\ham-dv-20050629>

No problem on NTFS or fat32.  These were extracted from a tar, not 
directly created using rsync though.

David