rsync Windows UNC

[Stuart Halliday]

You're using the wrong path format for cwrsync in the rsyncd.conf file

It needs to be in cygwin format.

ie

path = /cygdrive/c/windows/

or

path = /cygdrive/z/

if it was a network drive of z:\

I don't think the basic cwrsync will support UNC paths. So I suggest you
mount a drive to a network share, then run the rsync script then dismount
the drive letter.

Basically the 'net use ...' and 'net use ... /Delete' commands

Works for me on Windows 2003 R2 SP2
:-)

P.S.
Watch out for the path and file name limitation with using cygwin/Rsync on
Windows systems as it's basically ham-strung limited to 256 characters due
to cygwin still supporting Windows 98. I kid you not...

-- 
Stuart Halliday



-----Original Message-----
From: Matt McCutchen <matt at mattmccutchen.net>
To: Kalb Stefan <stefan.kalb at mmsag.ch>
Cc: rsync at lists.samba.org
Date: Mon, 17 Mar 2008 11:19:25 -0400
Subject: Re: rsync Windows UNC

> On Mon, 2008-03-17 at 15:57 +0100, Kalb Stefan wrote:
> > I try to backup files from a NAS to our backup-server using rsync.
> > The NAS itself is not able to run rsync.
> > Therefore I installed rsyncd (cwrsync 2.1.1) on a windowsserver which
> > has access to the NAS.
> > I configured the rsyncd like this:
> >  
> > [nspPR53_so2]
> > path = /172.21.87.9/nspPR53_so/material/doc
> > read only = true
> > transfer logging = yes
> >  
> > When connecting with the client I get the error message:
> > rsync rsync://172.21.87.14/nspPR53_so2
> > @ERROR: chdir failed
> > rsync error: error starting client-server protocol (code 5) at
> > main.c(1383) [receiver=2.6.9]
> >  
> > Any ideas what I'm making wrong?
> 
> The module path needs to be of a form recognized by Cygwin as UNC.  You
> could try a double slash at the beginning, but the most reliable
> technique is generally to map a network drive, say N:, and then refer
> to
> that drive: /cygdrive/n/nspPR53_so/material/doc .
> 
> Matt
> 
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