On 12/16/2009 02:45 PM, Spiro Trikaliotis wrote:
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* On Wed, Dec 16, 2009 at 07:31:25AM +0000 Andy Koppe wrote:
2009/12/16 chaos215bar2:
I'm attempting to use rsync to backup from Linux to Windows. This is mostly
working, except that paths with characters that are not legal in NTFS (< > :
" / \ | ? *) are not copied because rsync fails to create files and
directories with names containing these characters.
Those characters are supported in Cygwin 1.7.
Personally, I have this problem with the colon sign (":"). This is used
in maildir format, for example.
Trying to rsync a maildir folder with rsync always fails for me, as on
Linux, the generated filename contains a colon sign. On Windows, NTFS
interprets the colon as indicator for an alternative data stream (ADS),
thus, the resulting file has length 0 (and all the data is in the ADS).
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Can anyone shed any light on this?
Oh, I am using Cygwin 1.5.
Then you want to try 1.7.
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A: Yes.
> Q: Are you sure?
>> A: Because it reverses the logical flow of conversation.
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