On 10/11/07, Stephen Zemlicka <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm having a terrible time with one particular customer using rsync. Every > once in awhile, they create a folder like "Jon Const." Rsync seems to have > a terrible time with the period in the folder name. After the backup runs > and fails due to this folder, I cannot simply rename the folder. I have to > go into cmd and rename the folder using the short filename. Has anybody run > into this issue? Is there a way to get around it? I don't just want to > rsync the short filenames because I want to keep everything as it is on the > rsync client. Any suggestions would be appreciated.
Which OS is running on each side of the copy? Exactly how does the backup "fail"? This is likely to be a Windows or Cygwin idiosyncrasy. On my computer, Windows seems to remove trailing dots and spaces from every filename passed to a system call, so I can't create a folder whose name ends in a period. Matt -- To unsubscribe or change options: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/rsync Before posting, read: http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html
