Unfortunately, the script that was written to run rsync is in perl and has variables for the directory. It's complicated and I wouldn't know how to change it, which is why I rather just leave it as is and have the "nodosfilewarning' instead.
I'm wondering if capitals matter because I wrote set instead of SET Marco atzeri-3 wrote: > > --- Gio 21/10/10, msmoore ha scritto: > >> >> Hello, >> >> I need help with getting rid of a dos warning. I have >> a Windows 7 computer >> running a script that requires rsync in Cygwin. When >> the batch script is >> run, I get the following error: >> >> Nonempty Server backup error log on computer2 >> >> cygwin warning: >> MS-DOS style path detected: >> E:/backups/Server/files/ >> Preferred POSIX equivalent is: >> /cygdrive/e/backups/Server/files/ >> CYGWIN environment variable option >> "nodosfilewarning" turns off this >> warning. >> Consult the user's guide for more details about >> POSIX paths: >> http://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/using.html#using-pathnames >> >> So I edited the cygwin batch file to say: >> >> @echo off >> >> C: >> chdir C:\cygwin\bin >> >> set CYGWIN=nodosfilewarning >> >> bash --login -i >> >> But I still get the error. >> >> Any ideas? > > the solution is this one: > > Preferred POSIX equivalent is: > /cygdrive/e/backups/Server/files/ > > > as example I backup my data on c:\MieiDocumenti > with > > cd /cygdrive/c/ > rsync -ptvrW MieiDocumenti /cygdrive/f/backup > > Regards > Marco > > > > > -- > Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html > FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ > Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html > Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple > > > -- View this message in context: http://old.nabble.com/nondosfilewarning-help-tp30016692p30024981.html Sent from the Cygwin list mailing list archive at Nabble.com. -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
