[Gllug] Talking of backups, cygwin/rsync

[Ken Smith]

Ken Smith wrote:
> David Damerell wrote:
>    
>> On Wednesday, 13 Jan 2010, Ken Smith wrote:
>>
>>      
>>> I'm having a problem with a simplistic backup using rsync from a Windows
>>> machine to a Linux box out on the 'net.
>>>
>>>        
>> What does rsync --dry-run do?
>>
>>
>>      
> Just tried that - the same result :-(
>    
>>> But If I set it running on a larger batch it seems to stall. Using the
>>> -vvv option I can see rsync on the windows.cygwin end collecting a list
>>> of files prefixed by
>>>
>>>        
>> Can you do bulk data transfers by some other method (eg, scp -r) and
>> see what happens?
>>
>>
>>      
> That was going to be my next test. To get the file over to the remote
> machine and then run rsync to make it catch the differences.
>
> Ken
>
>
>    
scp -r complains about the space (20h) characters in the directory 
names. Escaping those gets scp to run. But rsync still gets in a mess 
over them. The cygwin rsync is v3.0.6 and the Linux (Centos) target 
machine has rsync 2.6.8

I'll have a think about how to get round this.

:-) Ken

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