in case you were unaware, junction points = hardlinks on ntfs.
Just exclude all of the WinXP directories like "Documents and Settings" to
solve this. Vista users the "Users" directory instead..
On Wed, Jan 7, 2009 at 10:32 PM, Cody Dunne <cdu...@cs.umd.edu> wrote:
> Hi Mark,
>
> Mark Maciolek wrote:
> > hi,
> >
> > Running 3.1.0 on CentOS 5.2 with 40 clients so far mostly Linux systems.
> > Added my first Vista system today. Used Deltacopy to install rsync.
> >
> > The backup worked but still had 13446 error transfer, mainly file name
> > too long.
> >
> > Remote[1]: rsync: readlink_stat("All Users/Application Data/Application
> > Data/Application Data/Application Data/Application Data/Application
> > Data/Application Data/Application Data/Application Data/...
> >
> >
> > Basically it is repeating the Application Data over and over again.
> >
> > Has anyone seen this issue and know how to prevent it?
> >
> > Mark
>
> That's because rsync is following the Vista junction points for the old
> XP locations of things. See
> http://www.cs.umd.edu/~cdunne/projs/backuppc_guide.html#Xfer<http://www.cs.umd.edu/%7Ecdunne/projs/backuppc_guide.html#Xfer>
> for the excludes you need to pass to rsync.
>
> Cody
>
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