Strangeness with rsync

[Collins, Kevin]

Just to add to the confusion.  My situation is completely different.

The files in question are being synced from one Linux box to another -
although the files were actually created by Windows machines, through Samba.

It appears as though instead of it being random files, it's the same 18
files every night.

I'm wondering if it has anything to do with the file system.  I'm using
rsync in several other locations on EXT3 and everything is fine.  I'm
pushing this to a machine running on XFS.  Could that be the problem?

Kevin 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Clay Goss [mailto:ClayGoss at gosscomputerprojects.net] 
> Sent: Tuesday, March 08, 2005 10:01 AM
> To: rsync at lists.samba.org
> Subject: RE: Strangeness with rsync
> 
> Ok. I have done some experimenting with the ""file has 
> vanished:" problem.
> 
> The most recent file I had exhibiting this problem was named:
> 
> "University Student's Realty Associates Power Point.ppt"
> 
> It did not exist on the receiving side of the rsysc after the 
> run.  I manually created the mount to the windows PC share 
> and navigated to the file.  I could list it with "ls" but 
> could not "cat" it - got an error that "The file did not exist."
> 
> Something possessed me to remove the "'" and rename the file to:
> 
> "University Students Realty Associates Power Point.ppt"
> 
> It rsynced fine.
> 
> Just for giggles, I named it back to:
> 
> "University Student's Realty Associates Power Point.ppt"
> 
> It rsynced fine and now I can access it through the mount 
> from a shell terminal.  There are many files on the "source" 
> system with "'" in their name, so I know the problem is not 
> the using of the "'", but rather with how it is coded.
> 
> Perhaps, this is related to other posts concerning "8bit" vs. 
> "UTF8" vs.
> "iso8859-1" vs. etc. character coding.
> 
> Take care,
> Clay Goss
> 
> 
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