Re: Rsync and FAT32

2011-03-10 Thread Panos Katergiathis
Solved. It appears that the -A flag works as expected. Thank you all for your help. Panos -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubsc

Re: Rsync and FAT32

2011-03-10 Thread Ehud Karni
On Wed, 09 Mar 2011 17:39:33 -0500, Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote: > > On 3/9/2011 4:34 PM, Panos Katergiathis wrote: > > > > rsync -e 'ssh -p 22 -l root' -z --delete-excluded --verbose > > --recursive --delete --update --exclude-from=exclude.rs root@ > name>:xms/home /cygdrive/e/MyNetworkServers/XMS-h

Re: Rsync and FAT32

2011-03-09 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin)
On 3/9/2011 4:34 PM, Panos Katergiathis wrote: Hello again. Here follows a complete report of the problem. Thank you for providing these details. rsync -e 'ssh -p 22 -l root' -z --delete-excluded --verbose --recursive --delete --update --exclude-from=exclude.rs root@:xms/home /cygdrive/e/

Re: Rsync and FAT32

2011-03-09 Thread Panos Katergiathis
Hello again. Here follows a complete report of the problem. I am using Windows 7 Ultimate with Service Pack 1. I am using Cygwin's latest (to this date) edition. I have only installed rsync / openssh / openssl packages besides the base system. Cygwin is installed on its default location (c:\cygwin

Re: Rsync and FAT32

2011-03-09 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin)
On 3/9/2011 3:12 PM, Panos Katergiathis wrote: Thank you for your polite reply. The issue at hand is of a more generic nature and (if Google is any witness) is rather old. I am referring to the well known problem of cygwin (at least, when rsync is used) not properly handling NTFS permissions, thu

Re: Rsync and FAT32

2011-03-09 Thread Panos Katergiathis
Thank you for your polite reply. The issue at hand is of a more generic nature and (if Google is any witness) is rather old. I am referring to the well known problem of cygwin (at least, when rsync is used) not properly handling NTFS permissions, thus resulting in folders and files that are no

Re: Rsync and FAT32

2011-03-09 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin)
On 3/9/2011 10:38 AM, Panos Katergiathis wrote: Hello all I am getting all too tired with rsync messing up permissions as i backup my linux servers to my windows 7 machine. So, a simple question: if i use a fat32 partition for storing these backups, can i hope that i will stop seeing various "pe

Rsync and FAT32

2011-03-09 Thread Panos Katergiathis
Hello all I am getting all too tired with rsync messing up permissions as i backup my linux servers to my windows 7 machine. So, a simple question: if i use a fat32 partition for storing these backups, can i hope that i will stop seeing various "permission denied" errors? Kind Regards -- Problem