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.
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