cwRsync : send all output to a file

[Hamish Robertson]

Aaron Morris wrote:

>On 4/25/06, Hamish Robertson <hamish at iskmweboffice.com> wrote:
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>>Hello
>>
>>I have been using cwRsync on some Windows boxes, backing up to a Linux server.
>>I have found some issues which files being open and not being copied etc, so I
>>decided that I would log the output from the rsync command on the Windows
>>clients so that I can look at them.
>>
>>On the Windows boxes, I put the rsync command in a batch file and run that
>>automatically each evening.
>>
>>However, if I simply open DOS and do:
>>
>>call "/path/to/batch.bat" >> "/path/to/logfile.log"
>>
>>Then all I get in the logfile is the list of files transferred etc. That is,
>>all of the information about what worked.
>>
>>In the DOS screen, I get left with the errors (eg Permission Denied, or "rysnc
>>cannot contact the srever" etc). These are the items I really want in my log
>>file.
>>
>>Can anyone tell me of a way to get all of the log information put into the log
>>file?
>>
>>Thanks
>>Hamish
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>You're only catching STDOUT with that command, you need to pipe STDERR
>as well.  The unix way of doing this is ">> logfile.txt 2>&1" which
>may work under DOS/Win as well.
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^^ This worked.

Thanks
Hamish

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>Aaron W Morris (decep) <aaronwmorris at gmail.com>
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