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Hi Brian,

Thanks for your swift reply! I see there are release candidates flying
about for 1.7 reckon they would be stable enough to try them out or
would I be better waiting for a stable release? Is there some where I
can find the release cycle?

Ed

2008/8/30 Brian Dessent <brian AT dessent DOT net>:
> Edward Blum wrote:
>
>> The scenario is: Ubuntu machine running rsnapshot ssh's into remote
>> machine running cygwin 2.6.9 on windows 2003 and uses rsync to backup
>> the files. The error I get is:
>
> There is no such version of Cygwin.  You are referring to the version of
> rsync.
>
>> Reading up is it to do with a limitation of windows being 255 maximum
>> character set is there any way round this?
>
> If you've searched the archives then surely you have also read that
> Cygwin 1.7.x supports a PATH_MAX of 4096, so the workaround is to wait
> until 1.7 is released.
>
> Brian
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