Windows Trouble with --link-dest set: "file not found" when rsync tries to create hard link

[Ming Zhang]

On Wed, 2008-02-06 at 00:14 -0600, Paul Johnson wrote:
> I have great luck running rsync from one linux system to another, or
> from a windows system (with cwRsync) to a linux system.
> 
> But when I try to do an rsync backup from one directory on a Windows
> system to another, it fails.  The cwRsync says its version is 2.6.9.
> 

does window ntfs ever support hard link??? i do not think so...



> Here's my Rsync command, boiled down to its simplest:
> 
> 
> rsync -rlptgD -vvv --delete --delete-excluded --modify-window=2
> --numeric-ids  --link-dest=/cygdrive/c/crapbackup/backup4
> /cygdrive/c/BackupSource/ /cygdrive/c/crapbackup/backup5/
> 
> I run this over and over, incrementing backup4 to backup5 for
> link-dest and backup5 to backup6 on the target dir.
> 
> I can watch the new backups being created, I can see the files going
> over.  The hard links are never created, however. After wrestling with
> this a lot, I started reading your email archives and learned of
> various problems over time, but not one quite like this.  Here's the
> error part in the verbose output:
> 
> recv_generator(putty.exe,5)
> rsync: link "/cygdrive/c/crapbackup/backup5/putty.exe" =>
> /cygdrive/c/crapbackup/backup4/putty.exe failed: No such file or
> directory (2)
> send_files(5, /cygdrive/c/BackupSource/putty.exe)
> set modtime of putty.exe to (1201715055) Wed Jan 30 11:44:15 2008
> 
> 
> But the file in backup4 DOES EXIST.
> 
> 
> C:\Documents and Settings\pauljohn\My Documents>dir
> c:\crapbackup\backup4\putty.exe
> dir c:\crapbackup\backup4\putty.exe
>  Volume in drive C has no label.
>  Volume Serial Number is 8003-3493
> 
>  Directory of c:\crapbackup\backup4
> 
> 01/30/2008  11:44 AM           454,656 putty.exe
>                1 File(s)        454,656 bytes
>                0 Dir(s)  27,704,442,880 bytes free
> 
> C:\Documents and Settings\pauljohn\My Documents>dir
> c:\crapbackup\backup5\putty.exe
> dir c:\crapbackup\backup5\putty.exe
>  Volume in drive C has no label.
>  Volume Serial Number is 8003-3493
> 
>  Directory of c:\crapbackup\backup5
> 
> 01/30/2008  11:44 AM           454,656 putty.exe
>                1 File(s)        454,656 bytes
>                0 Dir(s)  27,704,442,880 bytes free
> 
> 
> 
> -- 
> Paul E. Johnson
> Professor, Political Science
> 1541 Lilac Lane, Room 504
> University of Kansas
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Ming Zhang


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