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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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