X-Recipient: archive-cygwin AT delorie DOT com X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org X-Copfilter: Client is part of local network, skipped Spamassassin X-Copfilter: Sender is in whitelist, skipped SpamAssassin From: Matthias Meyer To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Subject: rsync Vista Client to Linux Server - readlink_stat - file name too long Date: Mon, 27 Oct 2008 22:54:20 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.9 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <200810272154.20249.Matthias.Meyer@gmx.li> X-Copfilter-Originating-IP: 192.168.0.92 X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Hi, I've installed cygwin and rsync/ssh on a vista client and want backup it to backuppc 3.1.0-2 on my Linux server: On client side (vista) I use rsync 3.0.4 (protocol version 30) Capabilities: 64-bit files, 64-bit inums, 32-bit timestamps, 64-bit long ints, socketpairs, hardlinks, symlinks, no IPv6, batchfiles, inplace, append, ACLs, no xattrs, iconv, symtimes On server side (linux) I have rsync 3.0.3 (protocol version 30) Capabilities: 64-bit files, 64-bit inums, 32-bit timestamps, 64-bit long ints, socketpairs, hardlinks, symlinks, IPv6, batchfiles, inplace, append, ACLs, xattrs, iconv, symtimes In the logfile on Client side I found tons of messages like: 2008/10/27 21:36:02 [2327] rsync: readlink_stat("/Dokumente und Einstellungen/All Users/Application Data/Anwendungsdaten/Application Data/Anwendungsdaten/Anwendungsdaten/Application Data/Application Data/Application Data/Application Data/Application Data/Anwendungsdaten/Application Data/Start Menu/Programme" (in C)) failed: File name too long (91) In the server logfile I see: full backup started for directory C (baseline backup #8) Connected to Loredana.mybackup:10025, remote version 30 Negotiated protocol version 28 Connected to module C Sending args: --server --sender --numeric-ids --perms --owner --group -D --links --hard-links --times --block-size=2048 --recursive --one-file-system --bwlimit=2840 --ignore-times . . Checksum seed is 1224438319 Got checksumSeed 0x48fb722f Sent exclude: /System Volume Information : What can I do? Is there a bug/feature with Vistas file links? Thanks in advance Matthias -- Don't Panic -- 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/