On 10/11/07, Stephen Zemlicka <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > XP Pro on both ends. This is the error in the log > > building file list ... file has vanished: "/cygdrive/F/Share/CP > Art/M-P/M/McCullough Const." > done > IO error encountered -- skipping file deletion
I imagine that once a period gets into the filename, readdir returns the name with the period, but when rsync attempts to stat the directory using that name, Windows strips off the period, causing the call to miss the actual file. What I'm wondering is how the period got there in the first place since Windows seems to strip periods when files are created (at least in my test on Windows Vista). Is the source on a mapped drive backed by a Linux machine, and are customers creating files directly on the Linux machine? In that case, Linux would accept the period and send it to Windows clients listing the mapped drive. In any case, there are two things you might try: (1) If the source is on a Linux machine, run the sending side of rsync on that machine (rather than over the mapped drive) so rsync can access the period-ending files correctly. Keep in mind that if rsync writes the files to a Windows destination, the periods will get stripped on the destination. (2) Before each backup, run a script that scans the source for period-ending files and renames them. 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
