On Thu, 2009-03-26 at 08:34 -0700, Eric Worthy wrote: > I’m trying to use rsync with windows vista. Vista’s odd form of > “links” confuses rsync and I get a recursive infinite loop at every > such junction (until failure when the filename size limit is > exceeded) . > > Could someone please point me to the solution or is there one? The > std don’t follow links switch doesn’t seem to work.
According to this message (and unless things have changed since then): http://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2005-08/msg00078.html junction points look just like directories to Cygwin programs, so rsync on Cygwin has no way to detect them and treat them differently. If you have a small, fixed set of junctions, you could exclude them with --exclude to avoid the infinite recursion. -- Matt -- Please use reply-all for most replies to avoid omitting the mailing list. To unsubscribe or change options: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/rsync Before posting, read: http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html
