Re: best rsync for use with windows (client) and long file names

2009-03-27 Thread Fabian Cenedese
At 15:57 26.03.2009 -0700, dnk wrote: Good day, I have been doing some tests with rsync on windows (client) to backup to a linux server. I started out with cwrsync, but ran into the dreaded File name too long (91) error. Apparently due to an issue with the cygwin portion of it. So I was

Re: best rsync for use with windows (client) and long file names

2009-03-27 Thread Michal Soltys
Fabian Cenedese wrote: I also use cwrsync but the few cases where the path was too long I just shortened the source. Of course that may not be possible for you. bye Fabi Remember about cygwin1.dll with utf8 support (using unicode win32 api). Side effect of it is that the paths are limited

Re: best rsync for use with windows (client) and long file names

2009-03-27 Thread dnk
On 27-Mar-09, at 1:13 AM, Fabian Cenedese wrote: The delta algorithm is only used if you access a remote server (e.g. with server::dest/path). For local syncs it is usually faster to just copy the whole file than to reconstruct it from the old file plus differences. There are switches to ease

best rsync for use with windows (client) and long file names

2009-03-26 Thread dnk
Good day, I have been doing some tests with rsync on windows (client) to backup to a linux server. I started out with cwrsync, but ran into the dreaded File name too long (91) error. Apparently due to an issue with the cygwin portion of it. So I was then testing with a newer version of