X-Recipient: archive-cygwin@delorie.com X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Message-ID: Date: Sat, 30 Aug 2008 21:11:47 +0100 From: "Edward Blum" Reply-To: eddy.blum@gmail.com To: brian@dessent.net, cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: rsync in cygwin In-Reply-To: <48B94CAD.F2DE2A5C@dessent.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <48B94CAD.F2DE2A5C@dessent.net> X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: 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 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 : > 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 > > -- > 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/ > > -- 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/