Hi raf, I was not aware the network maps were "user experience". Thanks for your tips. I have tried everything I can come up with, but cannot get it to work. I figured out another solution, but thank you very much for your help.
Best, Leon On Sun, Mar 29, 2020 at 9:23 PM raf via rsync <rsync@lists.samba.org> wrote: > Leon Vanderploeg via rsync wrote: > > > Greetings, > > > > I have written a C program that runs on Windows servers and does overhead > > and reporting for backup administration. The program calls rsync for the > > actual data copy function. It copies data from a remote system to a > local > > drive and that works fine. However, I have recently made changes to copy > > the data to a mapped drive on a NAS device instead of the local drive. > > > > The changes work fine when run from a command line, but fail when run > from > > a scheduled task or cron job: > > rsync: mkdir "/cygdrive/q/restores" failed: No such file or directory > > (2) > > rsync error: error in file IO (code 11) at main.c(675) > [Receiver=3.1.2] > > Note: The folder already exists and permissions are open for > Administrator. > > > > Command line that works is bash command to call the C program under > > Administrator login. > > Scheduled task built as Administrator with or without highest privileges > > fails. > > Tried Cron entry built under Administrator and it fails. > > > > Here is the Rsync command (abbreviated) called by the C program: > > rsync -rltgoD --chmod=Du+w,u+r,u+x -e "ssh -p 33222 -i > > \"/cygdrive/c/Users/administrator/.ssh/id_rsa\"" --stats > --files-from=/... > > -vv --exclude-from=/.... <usr>@remote:/<remote_loc> /cygdrive/q/restores > > > > Note: q is the mapped drive to the NAS share. > > > > So, what can be done to track this down? Why would running as a > scheduled > > task or cron job fail when command line works? I am willing to do any > kind > > of tracing if someone can provide directions on how to do that. > > > > Thanks in advance, > > Leon > > Hi, > > I think the most likely reason is that when you execute > the command interactively, you are logged into Windows > locally and your cached credentials are used to connect > to the mapped drive. But that's not the case when the > task is scheduled, and so the mapped drive isn't mapped > when the scheduled task is attempted. > > Similarly, with Cygwin, you can only see > /cygdrive/q/... while you are accessing it locally. If > you ssh to a Windows host with Cygwin and sshd running, > you can't see any mapped drives that are accessible to > the local user, even if you ssh in as the same user. > > You will have to map the drive in the scheduled task > before invoking rsync, and then unmap the drive > afterwards. I don't know how to do that or handle the > credentials that would be needed, but I think that's > where to look. > > cheers, > raf > > > -- > 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 >
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