Rob writes:

> I think I see the problem now.  Each of these files contains at least
> one "special" character.  For instance, a 'u' with two dots over it.  It
> seems that maybe rsync, windows, and BackupPC are not agreeing on the
> spelling of the filenames.  Does this sound right?  And is there
> anything I can do about it besides renaming the files?

Yes.  cygwin doesn't work correctly with windows unicode characters.
Rsync gets a directory listing, and then goes to open each file, but
the file open fails since the file name is not encoded correctly.

Here you will find a patched cygwin that works correctly:

    http://www.okisoft.co.jp/esc/utf8-cygwin/

I'm not sure why this hasn't made it into the standard cygwin release.

Craig

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