failed: File name too long

Kip Warner kip at thevertigo.com
Fri Mar 30 16:29:58 MDT 2012


On Fri, 2012-03-30 at 12:49 +0200, Paul Slootman wrote:
> The problem is that your OS doesn't accept the long filenames;
> there's nothing that rsync can do to fix your OS.

Hey Paul. That's something I should have thought of already, given that
I am a developer, and I apologize for not having considered what should
have been obvious.

> It might be that the temporary file that rsync creates has a name that's
> too long for your system; in that case, contemplate using --inplace or
> --temp-dir=xxx

Thanks. I'll look into that.

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