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At 08:03 AM 12/14/2005, you wrote:
>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.

Grrrrrrrrr! Thank you both.

Janos Dohanics



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