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RE: using rsync in a sceduled script
- From: "Bakken, Luke" <Luke dot Bakken at getronics dot com>
- To: "Brendon Baumgartner" <brendon at brendon dot com>,<cygwin at cygwin dot com>
- Date: Fri, 14 Nov 2003 09:27:10 -0800
- Subject: RE: using rsync in a sceduled script
> > Rsync works perfectly everytime from the command line, but
> sometimes after
> > the rsync operation completes when it is run using a
> script/scheduler, I
> > get this error and rsync sits running (hung) till I
> manually kill it.
> >
> > rsync error: syntax or usage error (code 1) at /tmp/rsync-
> > 2.5.6/main.c(1045)
> >
> > I logged stdout and stderr from the script, and here is
> what it looks
> > like:
> > receiving file list ... done
> > wrote 97 bytes read 1569 bytes 175.37 bytes/sec
> > total size is 1441861 speedup is 865.46
> > rsync error: syntax or usage error (code 1) at /tmp/rsync-
> > 2.5.6/main.c(1045)
> >
> > Is it a bug? Is it me?
>
>
> I've fought this for awhile now. I can't figure it out. I
> copied the script
> to a linux machine and it works flawlessly, same rsync
> server. The command
> that is the root of all evil (my problem, in cygwin) :
>
> /usr/bin/rsync -qaz --partial --delete --timeout=4 \
> rsync://server.xyz.com/o/test/ /cygdrive/d/remote/backup.current/o/
rsync doesn't work perfectly with cygwin in some situations. Search the
archives for more info. I installed the latest dll snapshot and it
seemed to resolve some of the hanging issues I've seen.
Luke
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