If we do that, it backs up the cygwin directory (c:\cygwin being the root of the cygwin install) and not the root of c: (i.e. C:\ ).
Trey Nolen ----- Original Message ----- From: "jw schultz" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, June 03, 2003 6:13 PM Subject: Re: rsync and cygwin > Try using slash instead of backslash. > > On Tue, Jun 03, 2003 at 06:04:50PM -0500, Trey Nolen wrote: > > Hi, I'm having some trouble using rsync on W2K under Cygwin. We are using it > > to back up the W2K machine to a Linux machine. We are using the patched > > version of rsync 2.5.6 that allows it to run faster on NT/2K when > > calculating the changes. We can backup a directory without a problem, but > > in this case, we want to backup everything, so the directory we are backing > > up is \. We do not run rsync under a Cygwin bash prompt, and we schedule it > > with the scheduler to run automatically every night, but this issue is the > > same even if we run the commands manually. The following is the contents of > > a .bat file we are running with scheduler: > > > > c:\cygwin\bin\rsync -aR -e > > c:\cygwin\bin\ssh.exe --verbose --exclude-from=c:\ssh\rsync-exclude.txt --nu > > meric-ids --delete --delete-after \ [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/ > > > > > > I've also tried something like the following: > > c:\cygwin\bin\rsync -aR -e > > c:\cygwin\bin\ssh.exe --verbose --numeric-ids --delete --delete-after \ > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/ > > > > In both cases, I get a lot of errors like the following: > > Building file list... > > readlink \/Borrower: No such file or directory > > readlink \/Data: No such file or directory > > : > > : > > IO error encountered - skipping file deletion > > > > It does one of the readlink lines for every file and directory in the root > > directory. Notice how it has a backslash and a forward slash on each line. > > It seems like rsync is not handling the removal of the slashes properly?? > > Now, if I do something like: > > c:\cygwin\bin\rsync -aR -e > > c:\cygwin\bin\ssh.exe --verbose --numeric-ids --delete --delete-after \Data > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/ > > > > It backs up the c:\Data directory just fine. Notice the only differenc here > > is that we are backing up \Data instead of just \. > > > > My rsync-exclude.txt file contains: > > + \Borrower > > + \Data > > : > > : > > for each directory and file in the root directory. > > > > It doesn't seem to matter what we list in the exclude file because the > > errors still list every file in the root directory no matter what we have in > > the exclude file. > > > > I've looked through the archives, and found some similar issues, like the > > one found here: > > http://lists.samba.org/pipermail/rsync/2003-March/010247.html but I > > haven't been able to resolve this so far. > > > > Can anyone shed some light on this for me? > > > > Trey Nolen > > > > > > -- > > To unsubscribe or change options: http://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/rsync > > Before posting, read: http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html > > > > -- > ________________________________________________________________ > J.W. Schultz Pegasystems Technologies > email address: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Remember Cernan and Schmitt > -- > To unsubscribe or change options: http://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/rsync > Before posting, read: http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html > -- To unsubscribe or change options: http://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/rsync Before posting, read: http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html
