255 characters total path length is what you¹re probably running into.
You¹ll need to start the process somewhere deeper in the name hierarchy
(mapped drive to a folder, SUBST) to get around it.


On 4/28/08 3:18 PM, "Sam Cayze" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> I keep getting this error on about 30 files, I think it's why I keep having
> problems with rsync.  Google-fu is failing me.
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> I know I have heard of some others here using DeltaCopy or other windows-based
> implementations of rsync.
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> Ideas?  There has got to a switch for this.  The file names are actually
> pretty small, it the whole path name that's long.  (I personally don't think
> it's that long...)
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> Partial transfer due to error
> Rsync.exe returned an error. Will try again. This is retry number 1 of 5
>  
> Executing: rsync.exe  -v -rlt --delete "/cygdrive/T/UserBackups/"
> "10.10.0.101::UserBackups/UserBackups/"
> building file list ...
> skipping overly long name: (Filename Ommited)
> (error happen like 30 times)
>  
> done
>  
> rsync: readlink "(Filename Ommited)" (in UserBackups) failed: File name too
> long (91)
> (error happen like 30 times)
>  
> IO error encountered -- skipping file deletion
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