R: nondosfilewarning help

[Marco Atzeri]

--- 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




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