Re: using rsync with Win32/UNC pathnames?

[Tomasz Chmielewski <mangoo at wpkg dot org>]

James Abley schrieb:

(...)

> > I see.
> >  Probably a reason why it fails for me.
>
> I've just tried the current snapshot and most (all?) of my problems
> with long path names have gone away, whereas the main release was
> failing at the start of the month.
>
> Previously:
>
> 2008/03/07 20:47:05 [13024] rsync: readlink
> "/AppData/Local/Application Data/Application Data/Application
> Data/Application Data/Application Data/Application Data/Application
> Data/A
> pplication Data/Application Data/Application
> Data/Adobe/Acrobat/8.0/Cache/Search80/08695a9e61055471bbeac6c64c29faa3.idx"
> (in jabley) failed: File name too long (91)
>
> But using the current snapshot, rsync (2.6.9) has been fine with the
> long path names. There are some issues (hey, it's a snapshot!) which
> I'll report separately, but I'm pretty happy!

Indeed - it works just fine if I use rsync.exe from cwRsync (and 
probably from cygwin, but I didn't try).

Previously, I had rsync.exe distributed with BackupPC, and it was 
failing for long names. Too old perhaps.


So once Cygwin learns how to speak UTF-8, I will finally be able to 
backup all Windows files... :)

But at least I'm able to open long path names and files with problematic 
ACLs, that's a major improvement.


--
Tomasz Chmielewski
http://wpkg.org

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