You wrote on Wednesday, December 14, 2005 1:56 PM: > actually, this is the command I have used: > > rsync -avz "/cygdrive/e/Company" > password-file="/home/Administrator/rsync_passwd" --delete > --delete-excluded > --exclude "Office2003/" --exclude "Office2003SP/" > [EMAIL PROTECTED]::winbackups/ > > /home/Administrator/rsync_server1.log
Right, you've missed the "--" in front of "password-file=...". Rsync thinks that 'password-file="/home/Administrator/rsync_passwd"' is a file, not a parameter, and boom. HTH, Jan. -- 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/