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RE: Where is my --password-file?
- From: "Jan Schormann" <jan dot schormann at brainlab dot com>
- To: <cygwin at cygwin dot com>
- Date: Wed, 14 Dec 2005 14:03:42 +0100
- Subject: RE: Where is my --password-file?
You wrote on Wednesday, December 14, 2005 1:56 PM:
> actually, this is the command I have used:
>
> rsync -avz "/cygdrive/e/Company"
> password-file="/home/Administrator/rsync_passwd" --delete
> --delete-excluded
> --exclude "Office2003/" --exclude "Office2003SP/"
> server1@192.168.30.17::winbackups/ >
> /home/Administrator/rsync_server1.log
Right, you've missed the "--" in front of "password-file=...".
Rsync thinks that 'password-file="/home/Administrator/rsync_passwd"'
is a file, not a parameter, and boom.
HTH,
Jan.
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