OK, sorry about that. When I do that, I get: building file list ... excluding directory / because of pattern /* done total: matches=0 tag_hits=0 false_alarms=0 data=0
Trey Nolen ----- Original Message ----- From: "jw schultz" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, June 03, 2003 6:44 PM Subject: Re: rsync and cygwin > On Tue, Jun 03, 2003 at 06:34:42PM -0500, Trey Nolen wrote: > > If we do that, it backs up the cygwin directory (c:\cygwin being the root of > > the cygwin install) and not the root of c: (i.e. C:\ ). > > I was refering to the exclude list, not the command line. > In any case -vv will show you what patterns do match. > > > > > Trey Nolen > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > > From: "jw schultz" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Sent: Tuesday, June 03, 2003 6:13 PM > > Subject: Re: rsync and cygwin > > > > > > > Try using slash instead of backslash. > > > > > > On Tue, Jun 03, 2003 at 06:04:50PM -0500, Trey Nolen wrote: > > > > Hi, I'm having some trouble using rsync on W2K under Cygwin. We are > > using it > > > > to back up the W2K machine to a Linux machine. We are using the patched > > > > version of rsync 2.5.6 that allows it to run faster on NT/2K when > > > > calculating the changes. We can backup a directory without a problem, > > but > > > > in this case, we want to backup everything, so the directory we are > > backing > > > > up is \. We do not run rsync under a Cygwin bash prompt, and we > > schedule it > > > > with the scheduler to run automatically every night, but this issue is > > the > > > > same even if we run the commands manually. The following is the > > contents of > > > > a .bat file we are running with scheduler: > > > > > > > > c:\cygwin\bin\rsync -aR -e > > > > > > c:\cygwin\bin\ssh.exe --verbose --exclude-from=c:\ssh\rsync-exclude.txt --nu > > > > meric-ids --delete --delete-after \ [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/ > > > > > > > > > > > > I've also tried something like the following: > > > > c:\cygwin\bin\rsync -aR -e > > > > c:\cygwin\bin\ssh.exe --verbose --numeric-ids --delete --delete-after \ > > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/ > > > > > > > > In both cases, I get a lot of errors like the following: > > > > Building file list... > > > > readlink \/Borrower: No such file or directory > > > > readlink \/Data: No such file or directory > > > > : > > > > : > > > > IO error encountered - skipping file deletion > > > > > > > > It does one of the readlink lines for every file and directory in the > > root > > > > directory. Notice how it has a backslash and a forward slash on each > > line. > > > > It seems like rsync is not handling the removal of the slashes > > properly?? > > > > Now, if I do something like: > > > > c:\cygwin\bin\rsync -aR -e > > > > c:\cygwin\bin\ssh.exe --verbose --numeric-ids --delete --delete-after > > \Data > > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/ > > > > > > > > It backs up the c:\Data directory just fine. Notice the only differenc > > here > > > > is that we are backing up \Data instead of just \. > > > > > > > > My rsync-exclude.txt file contains: > > > > + \Borrower > > > > + \Data > > > > : > > > > : > > > > for each directory and file in the root directory. > > > > > > > > It doesn't seem to matter what we list in the exclude file because the > > > > errors still list every file in the root directory no matter what we > > have in > > > > the exclude file. > > > > > > > > I've looked through the archives, and found some similar issues, like > > the > > > > one found here: > > > > http://lists.samba.org/pipermail/rsync/2003-March/010247.html but I > > > > haven't been able to resolve this so far. > > > > > > > > Can anyone shed some light on this for me? > > > > > > > > Trey Nolen > > > > > > > > > > > > -- > > > > To unsubscribe or change options: > > http://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/rsync > > > > Before posting, read: http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html > > > > > > > > > > -- > > > ________________________________________________________________ > > > J.W. Schultz Pegasystems Technologies > > > email address: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > > Remember Cernan and Schmitt > > > -- > > > To unsubscribe or change options: > > http://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/rsync > > > Before posting, read: http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html > > > > > > > -- > > To unsubscribe or change options: http://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/rsync > > Before posting, read: http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html > > > > -- > ________________________________________________________________ > J.W. Schultz Pegasystems Technologies > email address: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Remember Cernan and Schmitt > -- > To unsubscribe or change options: http://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/rsync > Before posting, read: http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html > -- To unsubscribe or change options: http://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/rsync Before posting, read: http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html