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Date: Thu, 21 Oct 1999 19:22:52 -0700 (PDT)
From: Earnie Boyd <earnie_boyd AT yahoo DOT com>
Reply-To: earnie_boyd AT yahoo DOT com
Subject: Re: rsync not doing the right thing...
To: R Pickett <emerson AT hayseed DOT net>, cygwin AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com
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--- R Pickett <emerson AT hayseed DOT net> wrote:
> 
> Well, I've tried various versions of precompiled rsync, as well as rolling
> my own copy from the 2.3.1 source, but I can't get it to work correctly.
> 
> Specifically, I'm trying to sync a local tree on a Windows NT Server box
> with a remote tree on a Solaris box.  The whole point of using rsync is so
> that I can make the NT box's filetree look like the remote filetree in the
> minimum network traffic -- sending only diffs.
> 
> BUT, using a command of the form:
> 
>   rsync -avvz remotehost::share/filetree c:\localfiletree
> 
> from an NT command prompt (having to embed this in a batch file, so have to
> have it work from CMD.EXE) resends every file, in its entirety, every time.
> 
> I have a sneaking suspicion that there's some kind of text translation issue
> going on here that makes the local and remote files hash differently and so
> seem changed.  But my mounts are all binary, and I have CYGWIN set to
> binmode.
> 
> Any thoughts?  Thanks in advance for any help....
> 

First let me say I've not used rsync and don't know it's operations.  However,
is it cygwin built or mingw32 built?  If it's cygwin built you will want to

mount c:\\ /c
rsync -avvz remotehost::share/filetree /c/localfiletree


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