rsync not doing the right thing...
Earnie Boyd
earnie_boyd@yahoo.com
Sun Oct 31 19:54:00 GMT 1999
--- R Pickett <emerson@hayseed.net> wrote:
>
> Well, I've tried various versions of precompiled rsync, as well as rolling
> my own copy from the 2.3.1 source, but I can't get it to work correctly.
>
> Specifically, I'm trying to sync a local tree on a Windows NT Server box
> with a remote tree on a Solaris box. The whole point of using rsync is so
> that I can make the NT box's filetree look like the remote filetree in the
> minimum network traffic -- sending only diffs.
>
> BUT, using a command of the form:
>
> rsync -avvz remotehost::share/filetree c:\localfiletree
>
> from an NT command prompt (having to embed this in a batch file, so have to
> have it work from CMD.EXE) resends every file, in its entirety, every time.
>
> I have a sneaking suspicion that there's some kind of text translation issue
> going on here that makes the local and remote files hash differently and so
> seem changed. But my mounts are all binary, and I have CYGWIN set to
> binmode.
>
> Any thoughts? Thanks in advance for any help....
>
First let me say I've not used rsync and don't know it's operations. However,
is it cygwin built or mingw32 built? If it's cygwin built you will want to
mount c:\\ /c
rsync -avvz remotehost::share/filetree /c/localfiletree
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