Re: Linux to Windows

2005-08-24 Thread John Jablonski
Hmmm. Oddly (?) enough, you can make a ".FILE" using a dos prompt (cmd), but not using the win GUI. RMB->Create new->Text file on your desktop (or anywhere using windows explorer) and try and create a file named ".dotfile". You can't do it (in XP-pro anyways). -john Tim Conway wrote: In

Re: Linux to Windows

2005-08-23 Thread John Jablonski
Yep. I'm sure. There's no colon's in your filenames there. Can't have these characters in a filename: \ / : * ? " < > | -john David Filion wrote: John Jablonski wrote: Thing is, it's not an rsync problem. It's a windows filesystem problem. Or at le

Re: Linux to Windows

2005-08-23 Thread John Jablonski
em, cheers Gaz -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of John Jablonski Sent: 23 August 2005 18:11 Cc: rsync@lists.samba.org Subject: Re: Linux to Windows I have the same problem: backing up IMAP mail on a linux box to a win2k box. My solution was t

Re: Linux to Windows

2005-08-23 Thread John Jablonski
I have the same problem: backing up IMAP mail on a linux box to a win2k box. My solution was to tar each mail directory and then rsync that. I'm running a cron job on the linux box to do the tars and rsyncs. -john Brent Blayney wrote: Hello to all, I have a script which uses rsync quite n

Re: Rsync over an NFS mount (Scanned @ Decoma)

2005-04-01 Thread John Jablonski
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Now , If I reboot machine 2, and forget to do the NFS mount, (actually the above rsync is in a crontab entry to happen automatically), then the /DB/plantx will be empty due to the 'delete' option of the rsync statement. I would assume this is a bug ??? Um.why wouldn'

what are "false_alarms"?

2004-11-24 Thread John Jablonski
Hi all. I'm sorry if this is a simple, obvious question, but I've looked around, and can not find an answer to this. What exactly are the false_alarms in the rsync summary? I am getting a number of false alarms in several of my rsync processes. Here's my output from one of my logfiles: total: mat