On Fri, 12 Jan 2007 22:22:01 +0100 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi, > > I am trying to backup a Windows XP box onto a linux server. > I am using cygwin+openssh+rsync. > > Here are the first lines of my default.conf : > > client: 192.168.0.99 > rsh: ssh > tree: /cygdrive/c/Documents and Settings/Valérie > > On trying to init this vault, I have the following rsync_error : > > *** Execution cycle 0 *** > > rsync: link_stat "/cygdrive/c/Documents/." failed: No such file or directory > (2) > rsync error: some files could not be transferred (code 23) at main.c(1173) > > It seems to be a problem concerning the space character. I may have a similar > problem with "é" later... > I tried to use : tree: /cygdrive/c/Documents\ and\ Settings/Valérie > but I have the same kind of error. > Any idea ? > Thanks for your help. > Rémi.
Not sure if this is correct, but I have to use ? for space characters when I back up my windows machines Documents?and?Settings/blah?blah This is my 'exclude' though. I had issues with cygwin/rsync/ssh on a pull, so I'm using rsync server now on the windows side of things, so my idea might not work at all, since our set up is different. HTH hanji _______________________________________________ Dirvish mailing list [email protected] http://www.dirvish.org/mailman/listinfo/dirvish
