rsync - convert illegal characters in paths

[Larry Hall (Cygwin)]

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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