Hi, I don’t know if the problem is related to Cygwin or Windows, but I thought It was worth asking…
I have no problem to use Rsync under Cygwin (Windows 7) on normal conditions, for example to copy one file on a remote Ubuntu server. Things get complicated when I want to copy open files. To perform this, I create a VSS snapshot including the file I want to copy (I just need to upload a big *.vhd file), map the snapshot path to a DOS drive using DefineDosDevice(), then run rsync on the drive. After the copy, the drive is unmounted and the snapshot is destroyed. After having searched in this mailing list it even seems that Cygwin now natively supports NT native pathnames (\\?\...) so most of my glue is useless. So, the following command line : rsync.exe -vrtzP --stats --human-readable -W "//?/GLOBALROOT/Device/HarddiskVolumeShadowCopy80/Data/StorageDisk.vhd" adr...@192.168.0.21:"~/ADRIEN/STORAGE/1/StorageDisk.vhd" ...gives me the following output : Number of files: 1 **Number of files transferred: 0** Total file size: 629.15M bytes Total transferred file size: 0 bytes Literal data: 0 bytes Matched data: 0 bytes File list size: 30 File list generation time: 0.001 seconds File list transfer time: 0.000 seconds Total bytes sent: 39 Total bytes received: 12 Although I use “-W” to force the file transfer, 0 files is transferred, while rsync exit code is 0 (success). I have the intuition that there might be an issue with the fact that the snapshot is read-only. But I get neither warning nor error message from rsync. But maybe that’s something specific to Cygwin ? Any hint appreciated! Best regards, Adrien -- 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
