Hi, I am writing up a rsync script to back up a Windows box using cygwin running on it. On my Debian Testing, which will do the backups, I plan to run a cron job.
In the script, I am faced with this problem of defining the source directories (dirs on the remote machine to be backed up) in a bash variable. I want to define a variable DIRS so that it expands to: '/cygdrive/c/Documents\ and\ Settings /cygdrive/d/My\ Data' *with* the quotes, to copy "/cygdrive/c/Documents and Settings" and "/cygdrive/d/My Data" to my local machine. I want to use this variable in the rsync command, like so: rsync -av remotehost:$DIRS /mnt/backups I have tried a few ways to define the DIRS variable, but I am able to get quotes in the expanded value of the variable. Can anyone help in this? ->HS -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
