X-Recipient: archive-cygwin@delorie.com X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Message-ID: <47F223A5.5010103@wpkg.org> Date: Tue, 01 Apr 2008 13:59:33 +0200 From: Tomasz Chmielewski User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.0.8) Gecko/20061110 Mandriva/1.5.0.8-1mdv2007.1 (2007.1) Thunderbird/1.5.0.8 Mnenhy/0.7.4.666 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: using rsync with Win32/UNC pathnames? Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com According to http://www.cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/using.html: Cygwin supports both Win32- and POSIX-style paths, where directory delimiters may be either forward or back slashes. UNC pathnames (starting with two slashes and a network name) are also supported. However, this doesn't seem to work with rsync. rsync will fail when sing Win32-style paths (it tries to connect via SSH): $ rsync -v C:\1 C:\2 The source and destination cannot be both remote. rsync error: syntax or usage eror (code 1) at /home/lapo/packaging/tmp/rsync-2.6.9/main.c(1068) [receiver=2.6.9] It works fine with cygwin paths: $ rsync -v /cygdrive/c/1 /cygdrive/c/2 1 sent 150 bytes received 42 bytes 384.00 bytes/sec total size is 68 speedup is 0.35 Why does it fail with Win32-paths? Is is possible to use rsync.exe with Win32 and/or UNC paths? -- Tomasz Chmielewski http://wpkg.org -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/