On Sun, Feb 03, 2002 at 12:37:08PM -0600, Pat wrote: > I've installed the latest cygwin 1.3.9 in order to use the rsync daemon. > I have a setup that works fine under Solaris and basic mirroring works > to my cyginw box. However when I use the rsync "-backup" option (which tells > rsync to save copies of modified files, necessary for incremental backups) > rsync backs up all of the files every time...
I've determined that the problem is more fundamental... Even without the -backup behavior the cygwin rsyncd causes many many files to be copied even whn they have not been modified. I thought perhaps it was because Win98 would not properly preserve ownership or permissions, so I removed those options (stopped using -a) and specified only recursion, time stamp, and links. I also believe that directories are not preserved in a case sensitive way (two dirs differing only by case cause problems for cygwin), but that is not the issue either... Basically I think rsync under cygwin is just behaving badly. Thanks, Pat -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
