Help needed getting rsync to copy from windows to mac

[milutin at s3rsync.com]

Hi,

> rsync -A -X -a --delete --rsync-path="/opt/local/bin/rsync
> --fake-super --log-file=/tmp/rlog.txt" /cygdrive/c/DRIVERS
> "rsync at kleiman-ibook:/Volumes/Windows rsync/rsync"

You command if fine, but -X will NOT copy both windows long and shot 
file name. I don't think it possible.

>  So at the end of the whole thing, it sent everything over. Right?
>
>  And a second attempt to copy sends nothing over -- it's all there
>  already. Right?

Yes you are right.



Regards,
Milutin Voinivich
s3rsync.com



On 08/15/2011 11:33 PM, Michael_google gmail_Gersten wrote:
> I'm trying to use rsync to copy files from a Microsoft Windows machine
> (XP, with cygwin) to a macintosh (10.5.8, PPC).
>
> After a lot of playing with options, manual page reading, etc, I have
> the following command, executed on the windows machine:
>
> rsync -A -X -a --delete --rsync-path="/opt/local/bin/rsync
> --fake-super --log-file=/tmp/rlog.txt" /cygdrive/c/DRIVERS
> "rsync at kleiman-ibook:/Volumes/Windows rsync/rsync"
>
> The idea of this command: Preserve as much information as possible
> (including acl's and extended attributes), use fake-super to work even
> as a non-root user, copy the entire C drive, but initially test with
> just a single sub directory (the C:/DRIVERS directory).
>
> So my first question: Is all that necessary? Is there something that
> I'm missing? Since I'm backing up a system with both short names and
> long names, does the -X flag copy both file names?
>
> Rsync asks me for my password (the rsync account), logs in, and starts
> the rsync server.
> The log file /tmp/rlog.txt is created. It looks like this:
>
> Kleiman-ibook:Windows rsync michael$ head /tmp/rlog.txt
> 2011/08/15 12:31:57 [58494] receiving file list
> 2011/08/15 12:32:23 [58505] receiving file list
> 2011/08/15 12:32:23 [58505] cd++++++++++ DRIVERS/
> 2011/08/15 12:32:23 [58505]>f++++++++++ DRIVERS/INFCACHE.1
> 2011/08/15 12:32:23 [58505] cd++++++++++ DRIVERS/AUDIO/
> 2011/08/15 12:32:23 [58505]>f++++++++++ DRIVERS/AUDIO/INFCACHE.1
> 2011/08/15 12:32:49 [58505]>f++++++++++ DRIVERS/AUDIO/R69382(2).EXE
> 2011/08/15 12:33:13 [58505]>f++++++++++ DRIVERS/AUDIO/SBL5DL_DRVPACK_LB.exe
> 2011/08/15 12:33:15 [58505]>f++++++++++ DRIVERS/AUDIO/SBL5DL_PCPatch_LB_3.exe
> 2011/08/15 12:33:15 [58505] cd++++++++++ DRIVERS/AUDIO/ADDON/
>
> So it's getting the file list. It seems to be getting the files.
>
> Kleiman-ibook:Windows rsync michael$ tail /tmp/rlog.txt
> 2011/08/15 12:35:17 [58505]>f++++++++++ DRIVERS/VIDEO/ADDON/NVWRSNL.DLL
> 2011/08/15 12:35:17 [58505]>f++++++++++ DRIVERS/VIDEO/ADDON/NVWRSNO.DLL
> 2011/08/15 12:35:17 [58505]>f++++++++++ DRIVERS/VIDEO/ADDON/NVWRSPTB.DLL
> 2011/08/15 12:35:17 [58505]>f++++++++++ DRIVERS/VIDEO/ADDON/NVWRSSV.DLL
> 2011/08/15 12:35:17 [58505]>f++++++++++ DRIVERS/VIDEO/ADDON/NVWRSZHC.DLL
> 2011/08/15 12:35:17 [58505]>f++++++++++ DRIVERS/VIDEO/ADDON/NVWRSZHT.DLL
> 2011/08/15 12:35:17 [58505]>f++++++++++ DRIVERS/VIDEO/ADDON/VERSION.TXT
> 2011/08/15 12:35:17 [58505] sent 3899 bytes  received 183284241 bytes
> total size 183249436
> 2011/08/15 12:40:31 [58549] receiving file list
> 2011/08/15 12:40:31 [58549] sent 25 bytes  received 4047 bytes  total
> size 183249436
>
> So at the end of the whole thing, it sent everything over. Right?
>
> And a second attempt to copy sends nothing over -- it's all there
> already. Right?
>
> And it should be in /Volumes/Windows rsync/rsync, right?
>
> Kleiman-ibook:Windows rsync michael$ pwd
> /Volumes/Windows rsync
> Kleiman-ibook:Windows rsync michael$ ls
> total 8
> 0 rsync/	4 Desktop DF	4 Desktop DB
> Kleiman-ibook:Windows rsync michael$ ls -R rsync/
> Kleiman-ibook:Windows rsync michael$
>
> Alright, so maybe it's somewhere else?
>
> Kleiman-ibook:Windows rsync michael$ mdfind nvwrssv.dll
> /Volumes/Memeo backup/Backups here/My WD_Backup/Memeo/My
> WD_Backup/C_/DRIVERS/VIDEO/ADDON/NVWRSSV.DLL
> /Volumes/Memeo backup/Backups here/My WD_Backup/Memeo/My
> WD_Backup/C_/I386/nvwrssv.dll
> Kleiman-ibook:Windows rsync michael$
>
> So a quick check on a file that was listed as copied shows that the
> only copies on my system are from a different backup program (that
> frankly stinks).
>
> So where are my files? What's happening?
>
> Both are version 3.0.7.
>
> Kleiman-ibook:Windows rsync michael$ rsync --version
> rsync  version 3.0.7  protocol version 30
> Copyright (C) 1996-2009 by Andrew Tridgell, Wayne Davison, and others.
> Web site: http://rsync.samba.org/
> Capabilities:
>      64-bit files, 32-bit inums, 32-bit timestamps, 64-bit long ints,
>      socketpairs, hardlinks, symlinks, IPv6, batchfiles, inplace,
>      append, ACLs, xattrs, iconv, symtimes, file-flags
>
> The windows version changes this to 64-bit inums, and does not include
> file-flags.
>

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Regards,

Milutin Voinivich
s3rsync.com