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* On Wed, Dec 16, 2009 at 07:31:25AM +0000 Andy Koppe wrote:2009/12/16 chaos215bar2:
I'm attempting to use rsync to backup from Linux to Windows. This is mostly working, except that paths with characters that are not legal in NTFS (< > : " / \ | ? *) are not copied because rsync fails to create files and directories with names containing these characters.
Those characters are supported in Cygwin 1.7.
Personally, I have this problem with the colon sign (":"). This is used in maildir format, for example.
Trying to rsync a maildir folder with rsync always fails for me, as on Linux, the generated filename contains a colon sign. On Windows, NTFS interprets the colon as indicator for an alternative data stream (ADS), thus, the resulting file has length 0 (and all the data is in the ADS).
Can anyone shed any light on this?
Oh, I am using Cygwin 1.5.
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