I have great luck running rsync from one linux system to another, or
from a windows system (with cwRsync) to a linux system.
But when I try to do an rsync backup from one directory on a Windows
system to another, it fails. The cwRsync says its version is 2.6.9.
Here's my Rsync command, boiled down to its simplest:
rsync -rlptgD -vvv --delete --delete-excluded --modify-window=2
--numeric-ids --link-dest=/cygdrive/c/crapbackup/backup4
/cygdrive/c/BackupSource/ /cygdrive/c/crapbackup/backup5/
I run this over and over, incrementing backup4 to backup5 for
link-dest and backup5 to backup6 on the target dir.
I can watch the new backups being created, I can see the files going
over. The hard links are never created, however. After wrestling with
this a lot, I started reading your email archives and learned of
various problems over time, but not one quite like this. Here's the
error part in the verbose output:
recv_generator(putty.exe,5)
rsync: link "/cygdrive/c/crapbackup/backup5/putty.exe" =>
/cygdrive/c/crapbackup/backup4/putty.exe failed: No such file or
directory (2)
send_files(5, /cygdrive/c/BackupSource/putty.exe)
set modtime of putty.exe to (1201715055) Wed Jan 30 11:44:15 2008
But the file in backup4 DOES EXIST.
C:\Documents and Settings\pauljohn\My Documents>dir
c:\crapbackup\backup4\putty.exe
dir c:\crapbackup\backup4\putty.exe
Volume in drive C has no label.
Volume Serial Number is 8003-3493
Directory of c:\crapbackup\backup4
01/30/2008 11:44 AM 454,656 putty.exe
1 File(s) 454,656 bytes
0 Dir(s) 27,704,442,880 bytes free
C:\Documents and Settings\pauljohn\My Documents>dir
c:\crapbackup\backup5\putty.exe
dir c:\crapbackup\backup5\putty.exe
Volume in drive C has no label.
Volume Serial Number is 8003-3493
Directory of c:\crapbackup\backup5
01/30/2008 11:44 AM 454,656 putty.exe
1 File(s) 454,656 bytes
0 Dir(s) 27,704,442,880 bytes free
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Professor, Political Science
1541 Lilac Lane, Room 504
University of Kansas
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