Michael Hipp wrote: > I'm trying to use Rsync to back up this system to a remote across the > network. I'm butting my head against 2 probs: > > - When rsync is given a source of /, it absolutely refuses to descend > into /cygdrive. It's as if the -x (one fs only) is set.
Do "ls /". In common with /dev, and mounts over nonexistent dirs, Cygwin's virtualized folders do not appear in directory listings. If you want this, you can create a cygdrive folder in the cygwin root with non-Cygwin tools. > - When rsync is given a source of /cygdrive/c/ it will attempt to read > pagefile.sys (the NT swap file) and always reports an IO error and > this causes it to change its behavior (doesn't quite die). It does > this regardless of all-powerful exclusions that would cause it to > skip over pagefile.sys. Even touching that file enough to realize to > exclude it evidently causes it problems. Ouch. That's a bug, obviously, but whether in Cygwin or rsync, I don't know. Max. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/